EAP Excursion to Cuan Di Xia

The weather is becoming consistent now. It's not fluctuating like it was a couple weeks ago. I've gotten accustomed to the cold now, but it seems like it's getting warmer and warmer, some people say it's because of global warming, who knows. All I know is that maybe this year, snow may come later, which is sad news for me because I wanted to see it snow in Beijing, or at least have time to go North to Haerbin and see the Winter Festival.

Anyway, Cuan Di Xia is in the countryside of Beijing. We took a 2 1/2 hour bus ride, which turned into a 3 ish hour ride back, to get there. Cuan Di Xia was an typical example of what we are studying in Chinese class now, Hutongr and SiHeYuanr. It's a typical old town in the old days of China, the 古代. Anyway, it was surprisingly fun and interesting to go around and old village where people lived during the time pre, during, and post Mao Zedong Cultural Revolution. You can even see how the Cultural Revolution affected the little town, the propaganda that still is pasted on the walls of the houses, aged with time. I took pictures of the aging propaganda and what it used to look like in traditional old Chinese housing establishments.

Here are some pictures from the event, there were SWINGS, but let me tell you now...they aren't the same as the swings we have back home...

So comfortable, see.

Some propaganda.

A typical hutong.

Cuan zi.

The city.

每个中国人都抽烟.

院子里.

In other news, the Storm release is on delay...turns out there were some problems with the Blackberry OS. The new OS was having problems so they installed the old one and tried to ship it out...不行. A lot of people complained and so now they are holding back on the order and people that preordered will barely make the holiday rush. They did a good article on the happening at Gizmodo.com which describes when you are expected to get your Storm if you ordered it already.

ALSO, Berkeley SCREWED ME. My Telebears Phase 2 is the latest freakin' date for Juniors. I SWEAR. They discriminate against the Piedmonters! HUH!? Is that it! Berkeley, make me get onto the waiting list for classes that I'm a major for and then give me the last freaking spot so you can jeopardize my chances of getting into the classes I need to graduate?! AND I JUST CHECKED AND ONE OF THE CLASSES FILLED UP. AHH! BERKELEY. NO!!!