Woke up at 6 am, and got to the Seattle airport at 7 am. Went to the american airlines counter and got told to go to alaska. Their terminals weren’t working, but after going through their attendant line, I got by ticket to los angeles. Since China Eastern isn’t their partner, they couldn’t reserve my… Continue reading June 11th – Getting In
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Refresh
I’m heading back to China tomorrow morning and spending the rest of the summer there. I’ll be working at Microsoft research for most of the time, with a couple weeks for travel at the beginning and end. First step is a 24 hour plane trip which starts tomorrow and gets me to beijing at midnight… Continue reading Refresh
Itinerary Week 1: Beijing
+ 14th + Arrival + Dinner around hotel + 15th + Old Summer Palace + Beijing University Campus + Lunch on campus + ZhongGuanCun + Dinner With Prof. Wang in haidian area + 16th + Tiananmen Square + Mao-soleum + Forbidden Palace + Lunch + Capital Museum (Tickets Reserved) + Roast Duck Dinner + 17th… Continue reading Itinerary Week 1: Beijing
Essay Progress
Status: 7+/20 Spent the morning coming up with a thesis. Spent the afternoon at the library reading books on copyright law. Spent the evening figuring out stuff about travel plans (like that hiring a car was much more expensive than trains). Had a lovely dinner. talked with my host mom for a while. Wrote a… Continue reading Essay Progress
Got all of my classes!
Spring Term 2009 – Undergraduate Program Course Sec Title Instructor Campus Building Room Days Beg End CHIN179 HM 01 Visualizing China Tan, C. HM PA 1264 -M-W— 01:15p 02:30p CHIN051B PO 01 Intermediate Chinese Yao,H PO MA 2 -M-W-F- 10:00a 10:50a PO MA 2 —-R– 08:10a 09:25a CHIN013 PO 01 Chinese Conversation, Advanced Bashaw,RB PO… Continue reading Got all of my classes!
Start of the homestay
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
Hilton Food & Wine Experience
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
Last Week of classes
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
Nov 19 – 23 The Week & Weekend
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
November 17, 18 – Start of the penultimate week
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