Got up for class. had chinese class, the dictation went fine. We’re done with this book now, all 36 chapters, there’s a week quiz tomorrow, and then we start on the next book for wednesday.
Class was fine, although both me and sergio don’t have all the words fully internalized yet.
after class came back to the dorm for a bit. headed out around lunch time, and walked a couple blocks south to a ‘hyper-mart’ that I’d seen on the bus yesterday. It wasn’t all that exciting just a normal supermarket, but I wandered around the building which was also an electronics super-center.
came back at 1, and spent the afternoon getting work done. Studied chinese, got a batch of emails sent out for my research, and finally got some programming done.
went out to dinner with the group and got one of the common street foods. Crepe with egg fried on it, wrapped around a crunchy piece of bread and a piece of lettuce and hoisin+hot sauce. It was good.
It sounds like travel plans to tibet will be a bit tough, I got told that if I was planning that i’d probably need to go through a travel agent, so the plan now is back to heading south, which will also be fun. Next time I get some free time (looking like wednesdayish) I’ll start figuring out what needs to happen to get tickets. It’ll probably take a few days to withdraw the money once I get a price since I think I can only take out about 2000 rmb / day.
Oh, and decided on my schedule for next semester. Went for something fun, and not too challenging.
* CHIN 179 HM Visualizing Modern China
* CHIN 51B PO (Section 1) Intermediate Chinese
* (CHIN 013 PO Advanced Chinese Conversation) — I believe my speaking will be appropriate for this course, I have emailed the teacher to confirm
* CSCI 140 HM Algorithms
* CSCI 144 HM Scientific Computing
* MATH 172 PO Abstract Algebra 2: Galois Theory
* PE 001 JP 16 First Aid
3 science classes, 2 hum classes. (chinese conversation is a 1 unit no homework type deal.) Alegra 2 will build on my previous course a year ago, the other two are math / cs joint classes which will be cool – they’re both supposed to be good classes.