#94

O.k. not too much has happened recently, but I'll give you the low-down:

On Thursday I didn't go to school because, on Wednesday, an office lackey told Kenta & me (in Chinese) that we didn't have to come Thursday, but to come Friday at 8:00 AM. I got a good amount of sleep and then talked to people on MSN for a little while. At some point in the early afternoon I headed over to Scott's, where we hung out for some time.

Shortly, EC, Etienne, Kaylee, & Yujing arrived, having been studying (or so they said) at Zhonglun. We decided after a while to watch Smallville, and were making sure everyone was down with that... Yujing was going to just use the internet while we watched even though her English is really good, but then I had an interesting idea. Just like with, say, French I have studied it a lot but don't speak it very much, so I am much better reading, I guessed she would be more comfortable reading & listening to be able to follow the show.

Turned out I guessed right and both of the girls whose first language wasn't English got an extra boost from the subs. We explained some stuff to Yujing in Chinese (Etienne had seen the show before in Brazil) & she seemed to get all of it, and had a good time as did the rest of us. Partway through I did a bunch of pushups for exercise... Scott was watching my form & I kept going until I basically couldn't do anymore as my torso & limbs felt like lead. I'm still feeling it in the muscles now.

Friday brought sleeping-in for me. I decided there was no reason to go that early on exam day (no classes so wtf) and thus I slept with my cell phone on. I got a call at like 8:30 and found out I had to pick something up at the office... convinced them 1:30 would do just nicely, and went back to bed. From midnight to 11:30 was a nice 11.5 hours of sleep. Mmm...

I got the winter break schedule, and apparently I have to go back on Thursday for no reason. I also got two 500 word essays for homework, hooray. Good old Wanfang, but I can take a lot of silliness which has been pre-mitigated by the choir. Chinese class wasn't bad, we learned a bunch of movie-ish words & lots of words in general.

Oh, in the evening I went with like 10 exchange students to Ximen to play pool again. It was pretty fun, though b/c Raph & Laura like to smoke my clothes got smoky so I had to wear new clothes. Dammit guys, stop killing yourselves. Also, Alex's host brother OWNS. So modest, and yet so good.

Yesterday, or rather today (being Saturday)... not that much happened. I guess I spent most of the day talking to people on MSN. I was planning on going to hang out with Alex but he cancelled. So I saw a piano/orchestra at National Concert Hall. The pianist was an 80 year old lady on her last performance and it was pretty hardcore. We gave her a standing O and clapped for 5+ minutes but no encores. I checked and it is indeed a "Steinway and Sons" grand, I am sure it's full length as well. What a sweet venue. [this post actually took over 2 hours as I've been talking to people, but didn't adjust the time] K out