It's been so long.
Friday my computer died (again) and I haven't been able to resuscitate it yet. I'm trying, though. Tena and Will, I wasn't trying to ignore you, that's what happened! I had come back to my room before my second class because I wasn't feeling well. I got online, then when the lappy died I went to bed. Friday night the guys and I went to a place called Pyro's Pizza. It was very American feeling. It is a pizza-serving sports bar, I guess. The three of us sat with some students from Beida (Peking University) and they nicely yelled at the fuyin (waitress) for us and told her to hurry up with the pizza.
Saturday I went to the Great Wall. It's great! I was amazed at how long and high it is. It seems to run the crest of a mountain range, and it makes me wonder at how people built it at all. I know that a large part of that reality has to do with slavery and inhumane working conditions, but the end is nonetheless a feat. At the end of my Great Wall tour, I got on a toboggan and slid, zigging back and forth down the mountain, down a metal chute with only a handbreak to slow me. It was probably the single coolest thing I've ever done.
Sunday we went to International, and it was the best Sunday I've had in months. My American friend and I spent the afternoon and evening studying in a little park we found on campus. It was really nice.
Last night I think I got a bit of a fever. I woke up feeling dehydrated and so I drank some water and took some ibuprofen. Then I went back to bed. I finally got up later and spent a leisurely morning reading and journaling and studying a map. Finally my roommate and I went to lunch, and I had a chef's salad. Then in class this afternoon I started to get a headache again. I think my fever returned. So I crashed after class. I rehydrated, took some more ibuprofen, and laid still for a while. Then I went down to the corner store (I understand the name convenience store now) and bought some orange juice (well, it's kind of like OJ if you removed all the actual juice), instant noodles, and more water. I had a nice dinner of instant noodles, and I am about to study.
I am studying here more that I have ever studied in my whole entire life.
So, that's what's going on with me. What's happening outside my bubble?
T
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Da Bears lost...to Dallas--- no Super Bowl repeat this year.
Other than that... Congresss still hates President, Americans still hate Congress etc.
And last but not least I'm having hamburger helper tonight.
Okay, so I think I'm caught up on most of your life...ish. And believe me I understand the whole is studying really neccessary/9.5 months here thing. Only mine is 21.5, and maybe now 33.5...plus. When we have our date in August (which apparently means all kinds of different things to different speakers of English), we have to go (back for you) to the Great Wall. I have this urge to see if I can scale it, just to do it. You know, the whole I'm > China and the Huns complex.
I'm thinking a lot of you and folks back home. And now for Hamburger helper... :p
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