Woke up at 9ish. Reviewed the article that I was talking about, packed, and then went to class.
Class was cool, we talked for the first hour on newspaper articles Me and Sergio had picked out. Mine was on windows black-screen initiative. Microsoft has started a newer enforcement of pirated windows where the bad copies turn the screen black periodically. I learned a good set of words related to software from that. We spent the second hour learning about stuff that would be useful in xian.
After class at noon, I went over to the cafeteria to meet with my research tutor. We had lunch at the cafeteria, and then set out to do some interviewing. We weren’t able to find a dvd vendor quickly, so we decided to spend this session interviewing students. We talked to 5 students, representing probably a fairly elite urban cross section, and got some interesting answers from them.
At 2:45 we finished, and I headed back to the dorm. Got on the bus at 3, and we drove to the train station. Got some fast food, and mochi for the train ride, and got on the train at about 5. Hung out on the train for a little bit, watched survive style 5+ with some people, which is a great, if confusing for the chinese teachers, movie. Then spent the evening chatting with others for a while. People are surprisingly interested and uneducated in terms of physics, and put much more faith and value in religion than I can really fathom.
Went to bed, not much else exciting.