今天我們大家一起去照片.

今天我們大家一起去照片.

Writing the rest of it in Chinese will take a long time, so I'm saving that for when I'm REALLY good at Chinese, which is very soon.

So today, we took a group picture for EAP, all the little EAP (Jia Zhou da xue sheng). It was cool, except the EAP group was so rowdy that it took such a long time to get ready before we could actually take the picture, which was done with 3 different cameras and taken at least 3 times with each camera. We finally finished but the damn person standing next to me on the bleachers, also known as the student that I have to share a tutor with, was making really stupid gestures that sometimes almost blocked my face. Hun zhang! Anyway, it was fine, I just did my normal smile the entire time. I stood in the middle-ish in the back.

After we finished taking the pictures, we went back to class for our ting shuo portion of class. Upon getting out of class at around 1130 am, we were going to go get jiao zi for lunch. BUT! as we were walking to nan men we saw other people taking pictures and as they passed by I could hear them speaking Chinese, but it sounded like mei guo de zhong wen ("American" chinese). I could tell they were from Pu Bei Ban (Princeton in Beijing program), the program that I was going to sign up for but didn't transfer any credits to Berkeley.

Anyway, one of my friends decided she wanted to jump in the picture so I did too. We stood there and I spoke Chinese the entire time I was there to not draw attention to myself. I didn't want to look like a Jia Zhou da xue sheng. So, they took the PiB picture and I was in it. Maybe I'll see the picture on the PiB website this year, it will be on the right side of the picture, bottom corner if any of you care to look.

It was pretty exciting. Then after I went to go get jiao zi, fill my student card to pay for food, and then try to do my laundry (to no avail), I am here sitting in my room and writing some e-mails.

I just wrote an e-mail to hopefully get a part-time internship position with a marketing company or with some ad hoc program with AT&T. Don't know for sure right now.

Here are some pictures from Chengde and Great Wall (that I didn't put up earlier):

Chengde

At the mini Puning Temple in Chengde
On the Great Wall