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Friday, July 21st: Today I woke up at 6:35 normally, but my mom slept over last night because my sister is out of town. She made me some good breakfast; I can’t really describe what it was. It was kind of like that Mongolian (?) bread and peanut sauce dish, but no peanut sauce. That type of bread with egg, some spice and some chili oil inside it. It was pretty good! Also, I had some 豆浆 which was also not bad. This morning, I went outside to wait for Justin, and he brought me some breakfast! It was some extremely yummy bread. It was so good. It was the oily, flaky kind with sesame seeds on it. Soooo good. He biked while I walked to the subway. Again, we met Sam in the SAME SUBWAY CAR. We all walked to school. In class, we watched a movie! The second part to the first movie we watched. I really enjoy that movie. It’s about the Warring States Period, and it’s all in Chinese, but I can get the general idea of what is going on. For lunch, we had to be back really early, and some of us were going to eat lunch with the Koreans. Turns out some of the Koreans couldn’t come, so I went with some other NSLIY-ers to this restaurant nearby (we only had 40 minutes and the cafeteria was too far away to walk). I got some 水饺but I wish I got these hand-cut noodles that looked amazing. Next time I will! Turns out that some of the Koreans could go out to eat, so Alexander and Saimu went with them! We didn’t know that though. Also, I discovered something amazing. Green bean fruit bars. They sound so gross but they are so good. The best thing is that they are only 1 yuan. They are also pretty healthy. After lunch, we met back at the classroom for presentations about our experience with Chinese. I prepared something the night before, so when I was presenting I started reading off that, but then I realized I didn’t really like what I wrote so I just winged it. Everyone else didn’t prepare, so it wasn’t stressful. We finished early, and I noticed that Wu Laoshi was kind of stalling and not a lot of people were paying attention, so I felt kind of bad. Class soon ended though, and we had about a 30 minute break before our cultural singling class started. It was the perfect amount of time to kill my next target for assassin – Alexandra. I had to kill her 2 feet next to Margie with an umbrella. The whole time she thought Sam was trying to kill her, but it was really me. So, I made it to top 4! My next target is Hannah. Anyway, for singing class, we sang another classic Chinese song, and learned it for an hour. We each sang it in groups in front of the class. After class, I took the subway home with some friends. Later that night, after dinner, my host sister told me that we were going to go walking with my old host mom and my current host mom. I was really excited because I miss my old host family a little bit. We left the house around 7:45 where we walked to my old host apartment and greeted my old host mom. We walked around 紫金山 and went to this pretty lake. It was still hot at night, and it was nearly pitch black. It was nice to get out of the house and to walk around. The only thing is that the mom, for the 2nd time, brought up that she wants me to speak English with her daughter, which is technically not allowed in the rules of this program. The whole point of me coming to China was to improve my Chinese, and that’s not going to happen if I speak English all the time. Ughh. It annoys me a little bit because she’s mentioned it multiple times and I don’t want to speak English. Anyways, we walked back home afterwards and ate watermelon. I relaxed and skyped my mom. I’m glad it’s Friday.
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Andrea 施安雅17-year-old XC runner and boba tea lover living in Seattle but studying abroad in China. Also, I have a cat! Archives
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