Busy week, stuff’s already beginning to wrap up.
On wednesday I had class, then went to the hilton and got tickets for the wine even this coming weekend. I continued down the subway to the tailor afterwards and picked up my suit, which looks really nice.
Came back that afternoon, did a couple hours of math tutoring and went out to diner. Jeremy’s parents invited the group out to a nice pan-asian place (it was a classy restaurant – also jeremy’s birthday). It was an amazing meal, lobster, fish, the duck of course, really good.
Came back at like 11pm, and managed to study the 6 pages of characters for thursday before bed.
thursday was class, which was fine, then in the afternoon was core class on chinese literature and the themes in classical chinese writing. The evening was our last calligraphy class, where we wrote a full page of calligraphy that we’ll get back at some point. Mine doesn’t look too bad.
On friday there were two classes, first the ‘colloquial chinese’ one. We did presentations on media that were a bit longer than in the past. I presented to forms of media, first a newspaper article on chinese hackers attacking foreign computer systems. Then a kids TV episode of cat policemen.
In the afternoon we had our weekly test, which was fine.
In the evening friday I went to houhai. There are a combination of dance clubs, music clubs, and nice restaurants around the lake, we walked around for a while, and then chose a restaurant about a block away instead that had chinese in it.
The food was quite good, especially their eggplant dish and a beef curry.
on saturday and sunday I focused mostly on emails and catching up. Dealt with travel plans for after the program for a while and for my plans next summer.
Started preparing for the chinese final as well – and did bits of programming on various topics.