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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

Got up at 8. First up was going to a CS talk. It was by a cornell prof. on concensus theory. He actually made it quite interesting, although it’s a field of CS that I probably won’t end up using much in my career. It’s dealing with how you can have a collection of unreliable… Continue reading November 7 – Breaking the Routine

Got through classes for a couple more days. I like the new book, it’s got a lot of useful words in it. Obama won the presidency, there was lots of talk among the group about that. Lots of liberal arts kids who are quite invested in politics. went to jinwuxing street market today, and got… Continue reading November 5,6 – Busy Week

Got up around 8. Spent the morning reviewing characters from the last week. Walked around campus when the attendants came to clean my room, but otherwise spent the morning studying. The test didn’t go great, but I think they knew that would be true, because they didn’t exactly set us up for success this week.… Continue reading November 4 – Tuesday

出车祸 – chu1che1huo4 – to get into a car accident 受伤 – shou4shang1 – to become injured 严重 － yan2zhong4 – seriously 医院 － yi1yuan4 – hospital 病房 – bing4fang2 – ward 住院 – zhu4yuan4 – to be hospitalized 轻 － qing1 – not serious 腿骨头 － tui3gu3tou2 – leg bone 撞 － zhuang4 –… Continue reading New Words

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… Continue reading November 3 – Monday