Another week over. I worked a bit, I went to class, I went out and had some fun.
Yeseterday I worked after class. It is always a bit tight to make it from my school to the Modern English language centre in 50 minutes so I take a taxi. The class was a bit fun because the topic we did was flirting. I got people to do a little role-play where people flirted with eachother and most of the students were pretty into that. One thing I discovered is that "flirt" translates into something decidedly less innocent in Chinese, as a result, most people were unwilling to admit that they flirt at all.
Last night, I went out for dinner with Catlyn and Alex. We met at Fuxingmen and found a Beijing style restaurant where we ate lion's heads and drank baijiu. It was a good time. They are good people and fun to talk to. I think they are really adjusting well to life here. They have even been learning a bit of Chinese, but just enough to get around without too many troubles. We all agreed that the quality of life is not so great here, but they seem to be having fun anyway.
Rae was supposed to hear from her graduate advisor today about whether she can drop her French class and come to China two weeks earlier. She didn't come online or respond to my emails, so I will just assume the worst. This is truely unfortunate for me because apart from not seeing her for another two weeks, I will also have to get my visa extended in the next few weeks rather than flying down to HK and Taiwan for a little traveling. The positive side of her later coming is that I will be able to make a bit more money before she arrives.
This weekend I am going to work... I don't know why I agreed to it, but I am doing two demo classes tomorrow in the morning and the evening and then my regular class on sunday afternoon. It really fucking kills my weekend. The worst thing is that I don't even make that much money for it... for all of my inconvienience I will only be working about 4 hours. I just hope that the two full days of classes tentatively arranged for monday and tuesday.
Hungry... going to eat...
Yeseterday I worked after class. It is always a bit tight to make it from my school to the Modern English language centre in 50 minutes so I take a taxi. The class was a bit fun because the topic we did was flirting. I got people to do a little role-play where people flirted with eachother and most of the students were pretty into that. One thing I discovered is that "flirt" translates into something decidedly less innocent in Chinese, as a result, most people were unwilling to admit that they flirt at all.
Last night, I went out for dinner with Catlyn and Alex. We met at Fuxingmen and found a Beijing style restaurant where we ate lion's heads and drank baijiu. It was a good time. They are good people and fun to talk to. I think they are really adjusting well to life here. They have even been learning a bit of Chinese, but just enough to get around without too many troubles. We all agreed that the quality of life is not so great here, but they seem to be having fun anyway.
Rae was supposed to hear from her graduate advisor today about whether she can drop her French class and come to China two weeks earlier. She didn't come online or respond to my emails, so I will just assume the worst. This is truely unfortunate for me because apart from not seeing her for another two weeks, I will also have to get my visa extended in the next few weeks rather than flying down to HK and Taiwan for a little traveling. The positive side of her later coming is that I will be able to make a bit more money before she arrives.
This weekend I am going to work... I don't know why I agreed to it, but I am doing two demo classes tomorrow in the morning and the evening and then my regular class on sunday afternoon. It really fucking kills my weekend. The worst thing is that I don't even make that much money for it... for all of my inconvienience I will only be working about 4 hours. I just hope that the two full days of classes tentatively arranged for monday and tuesday.
Hungry... going to eat...
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