October 13 – Class

Got up at 7, had chinese class for a couple hours. The test and dictation were fine. Came back, went through the next lesson. The set of new words for tomorrow is smaller than the past few days, which was nice. Finished studying that mid afternoon; caught up on some emails later in the afternoon,… Continue reading October 13 – Class

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October 12 – Continuation

Got up at 8 ish, though I was a bit sluggish getting moving. Spent much of the morning studying characters, although to a break midmorning to grab some food. It was a nice day; I finished watching the movie (a world without thieves) and the ending was quite good. At 1pm, Lucia came over and… Continue reading October 12 – Continuation

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October 11 – Art

Got up at 8 am. Got a bit of chinese studied, while waiting for the day to begin at 9:30. At 9:30, I got on the bus to go to the 798 art area. This area is one of the major creative districts in beijing. It was originally a factory area on the outskirts of… Continue reading October 11 – Art

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October 10 – Exploration

Got up at 8 am, since class wasn’t until 10. Dealt with email for a bit. Chatted with one of the guys I met at the taiji class, and arranged to meet with him and walk over to the taiji club practice tomorrow evening. Then walked over to the bank and withdrew some money before… Continue reading October 10 – Exploration

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October 9 – Next Round

Woke up at 7 am, pretty tired this morning. Class went fine, although neither of us remembered that beyond the homework we were supposed to debate (the teacher forgot as well, so we did an off the cuff discussion of if celebrities should be able to have personal secrets.) After class, I recharged my meal… Continue reading October 9 – Next Round

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October 8 – Continuation

Had class this morning. It was fine, I managed to remember everything I needed to. After class I spent the afternoon studying for the next lesson, and finishing up the core homework for tomorrow. Then I went out and bought a tea pot ($40 kuai) an eraser (my pencil doesn’t have one) and tape. Came… Continue reading October 8 – Continuation

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October 7 – Busy

Studied for most of the morning. Basically got through all of the 10th lesson, and got the math homework done. Had a good lunch and then went to class at 2pm. It was disp class, so we got to find out changes they wanted to our proposal and who our research tutors are. I got… Continue reading October 7 – Busy

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October 6 – Class Resumes

Woke up again for class this morning. The test went fine. Afterward, I wrote out the 10th lessons characters, finished up the math homework from last week, which i’ve been procrastinating, and got about half way done on the math for this upcoming week. I also got a bit further in the core class homework… Continue reading October 6 – Class Resumes

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October 5 – Studying

Spent most of the day inside studying. It was colder today. I feel reasonably confident that I know all the words I’ll need tomorrow, but it did take pretty much all day to get them all. I spent a couple hours with my Chinese tutor going over stuff, and then went to dinner with her… Continue reading October 5 – Studying

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October 4 – Weekend

Another fairly normal day, I’ll continue posting the interesting events I encounter, but I’ll be cutting down a bit on post length since it’s hard to dedicate half an hour every day to this activity. I spent a lot of time studying chinese, and some time doing programming. I got out again in the afternoon,… Continue reading October 4 – Weekend

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