got up at 7. Class in the morning was fine. We went over the new lesson as expected.
Came back, wrote out the characters for tomorrow, and talked to my parents for a bit online.
Went to my afternoon class – the one delayed from friday, and we talked about our newspaper articles. Our homework for this friday is to watch a TV episode and explain in in class.
Came back in the evening. Decided to do something since class tuesday isn’t until the afternoon. Took the subway down to wangfujing (the upscale area.) Walked over to DongHuaMen, but couldn’t find the night market that was supposed to be right by that gate.
Walked back over to wangfujing, and found something on my way over, although I think it was a wangfujing night market and not the donghuamen market.
There was a large area of nightmarket foods, I sampled a starfish, since I’ve never seen those for sale before. It didn’t taste like anything special, the inside was reminiscent of crab, but it wasn’t that easy to get to the meat.
There were lots of exotic foods there, skewers with seahorses, and scorpions (some live ones even.) bugs of various types, and then more normal pieces of animals. Also sea urchins, again not entirely sure how you eat those.
Got a big calligraphy brush on my way back in a side alley. Probably paid a bit much for it at $150 kuai, but they were asking for 400 so it still felt like a victory.
Came back at around 11:30, and went to bed