Author: Will

The homestay so far has been really fun. I really like my host mother, han lihong. She’s a lawyer dealing both as an adviser for companies, and has some experience in dealing with corruption of officials. The food has been delicious and there’s always too much of it, which is custom. I biked back to… Continue reading Start of the homestay

I’m going to write as much of this as I can remember this evening before heading to sleep. I met up with Jeremy, Max, and Rebecka at 4pm out front of our complex. We took a taxi to the subway station to our east (an easy bike ride, but a long walk) and then took… Continue reading Hilton Food & Wine Experience

got through reasonably unscathed. The last lesson didn’t go terribly well, but we were never tested on it, and the final went quite well. I might review it on my own time. Yesterday was the final in the morning, and then we had a thanksgiving dinner in the evening. That was a lot of fun.… Continue reading Last Week of classes

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… Continue reading Nov 19 – 23 The Week & Weekend

Monday and today were good. Chinese monday morning, learned the characters without trouble. Monday afternoon did a fitting for the suit which looks really nice. Wandered around the city a bit on the way back, and then got my presentation for today finished monday evening. This morning I got over to the bank to take… Continue reading November 17, 18 – Start of the penultimate week

This weekend turned out to be both productive and fun. I got a lot of what needed to be done, although I didn’t make progress on travel plans for next month, so that’s now a priority. On Friday there was class in the morning. I talked about a kids TV show I watched, and then… Continue reading November 14 – 16 – Good Weekend

Let see, it’s been a fairly quite few days overall. Classes, concluding with a chinese weekly quiz this morning which went quite well. Made progress on my disp, talked to a law student in IP law today for an hour. That was really interesting and has changed my perceptions on what’s going on a lot.… Continue reading November 11 – 13 Classes

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… Continue reading November 10 – Night Market

got up fairly early. Did a bit of Chinese homework and checked the web before leaving at 9. We went on a tour of the forbidden city. The place is cool, but always flocked with tourists, and there’s really not that much to say about it that isn’t obvious. I mean, it’s where the emperor… Continue reading November 9 – Forbidden City, Roast Duck

didn’t do that much today, it was bleak and raining or threatening to rain all day. Wrote out the chinese characters and did the homework. Wrote out my part of a group essay due thursday (a few pages). Wrote out the calligraphy homework for next week and did some math. Met with my tutor in… Continue reading November 8 – Day of rest