Chinese class in the morning. Talked with the professor over break about traveling. She recommended going to tibet, saying that there should be a a fast train to Lhasa that would only be 1-2ish days. That could be cool.
Walked around after class to see if I could find a costume for Halloween. Didn’t, and wasn’t really expecting to. But picked up some lunch and some calligraphy paper while I was out.
Practiced some calligraphy before afternoon classes.
The main core lecture was on BBS and internet usage in modern china. Lots of cool stuff, the guy referred to lessig a few times, which was cool. China’s BBS situation is on a whole different level than any forums in the US; threads will easily get 500,000 responses in a week or so, and can easily get 5 million views.
Next was calligraphy, we looked at running and flying scripts, that is the more cursive styles, but also the styles that are different enough from actual characters that it’s almost impossible to read them. (they’re more like art than writing in that sense).
Grabbed some dinner after classes. Then came back to the dorm.
Read through a couple newspaper articles with my tutor for an hour, Palin is apparently being accused of trying to sabotage mccain by some republicans so that she’ll look better for the 2012 elections.
surfed the web a bit in the evening and relaxed. One more class tomorrow, and then it’s the weekend.