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I take what I said before about the weather back. Today was freezing. Upon being around 0 degrees Celsius, the weather today was also extremely windy, making it feel even colder than it actually was. Additionally, I was pelted countless times by the leaves that have now fallen off every tree in Beijing! Ok, maybe not every, but the wind was so hard today it knocked over rows of bikes that were parked outside the school and the apartment building.

I saw a BUGATTI bike today. Haha. It was funny, a good brand I bet. Not. I also forgot to mention one more thing about home that I am missing right now, fresh air and cigarette free restaurants. I just got back from a restaurant that, though the food is good, the waiters and waitresses are either too timid or too greedy, probably the latter, to ask people to stop smoking (even if there is a 禁止吸烟 sign, which means Smoking Prohibited). I so miss the fresh air...err the air quality in America.

On a more educational note, my teacher in "Reading and Writing" or 精读 class today learned how to use a Powerpoint Presentation. Ok, I'm exaggerating, but it seems that over the last two days she's caught onto the other resident BNU teachers and decided to be just as good as they are. Seeing as how she is not a teacher from BNU, but a "permanent sub", she doesn't have as much experience or knowledge about the school's system, the tests, and what to emphasize. I think that may have influenced my grade for the midterm, but it just means all the students in my class have to work a little harder. I hope her new teaching methods will be a lot more helpful to our class because what she was doing before, just lecturing and saying really complicated stories that we all didn't understand, yeah that wasn't really working.

As for a countdown, I'm still looking for a widget to put on my Blogger. It's changed since last time huh? Pretty neat. I'm going to try to mess with the HTML and maybe modify it to my liking and add more content. 26 days left.