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Thursday, July 20th: After waking up to the sound of my alarm, I washed up and ate breakfast. It’s a little weird; in order to get to the kitchen and bathroom, I have to walk through my sisters’ room. So, I try to keep really quiet when I get up. My older sister left with her friends to another city really early this morning, so I found some breakfast that they left on the table for me and my little sister. My little sister and I were the only ones in the house. I was planning to meet Justin at 7 at the school, so I quickly finished up some weird fried sausage and an egg. I met Justin at the middle school where he had a bike. We got to the subway station at around 7:20 and caught the subway. After transferring, we were on a subway train talking when I saw Sam out of the corner of my eye bopping his head to music. It’s so weird that we were on the exact same subway car at the same time. Anyways, we walked with him where we also found Josie. We got there with a few minutes to spare, so I was early for class! During the breaks after class, we talked with the Koreans for a little bit, then went to the store to buy some crackers. Alexandra and I are trying to eat healthy for cross country season, but today we didn’t care, so we bought some unhealthy but yummy snacks. Before lunch, I had to kill my assassin target, which was Mae, on the stairway. So, on the way to lunch I killed her with my deodorant. Hahah. I really want to win this game. Also, the Korean boys are kind of hitting on some of the Americans. They are asking for nearly everyone’s wechats. Apparently, their school schedule here is so strict. They aren’t allowed to go into the city (they only go twice into the city as a group). All day, they pretty much have class, have break, study, and sleep. They also don’t get to use their phones until they go to bed, apparently. Anyways, for lunch, we headed to the cafeteria where I got some fried rice for 10 yuan (little bit expensive) and then I got a fruit bar for 4 yuan. I love those fruit bars. We headed back at 1 for our meeting with Margie where some people delivered some more IOPP’S. Obrian (idk how to pronounce/spell his name), kind of like a coordinator for the China trips, arrived today so he listened in. IOPPs ended in an hour (we didn’t finish all of them so we are going to continue on Monday probably) and we did some Chinese Handicraft for the cultural part of class. We made some Chinese knots, which turned out really pretty. Handicraft was supposed to go until 4, but we ended in literally 20 minutes and just relaxed until about 3:10 when he let us out. I had to head home early that day because I had to go to get registered at the police station because I am a resident. I headed back on subway with Justin (I found another unlocked bike!!!) and my family and I left for the police station. Turns out that we were a few days late, so we have to go to a farther station now. My host dad said he would go because I have class. We came back, and it was about 5:30, so I decided to take a small nap before dinner. I was sooooo tired. I didn’t really get to sleep, it was kind of like I was half-asleep? Dinner was soon called and we had some fried fish and some rice and some bean meat dish. It was good! The food my dad makes is really good. After dinner, he gave us each half of a small watermelon to eat, and I started to do my huge amount of homework. My sister, out of the blue, asked what my homework was. I was extremely glad she did because it stemmed into this long conversation about a lot of different things. The watermelon kind of split everywhere which we laughed about and we connected over the watermelon. I am currently on my bed taking a break from homework, but I still have a lot more to do. Ahh. 2 presentations tomorrow, one 听写 test, a worksheet to do, and I still have my big IOPP to prepare for. Probably just going to relax tonight on my bed.
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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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