So today and yesterday I’ve just kind of stayed in the room and studied a bit. I’m glad I didn’t do a ton of research on Shanghai before I came so I won’t be disappointed in the sights I didn’t get to see. I’m going to go out for dinner later today with the others though. I really don’t like walking around and going places myself because I’m 100% Chinese (by blood anyways if not by nationality\/birth) and people just assume I can speak it and I end up feeling retarded when I have no clue what they said.<\/p>\n
It happened twice today. I was going to my first tutoring session with Zhe Ge Laoshi and some guy in a van tried to ask me direction to some place on a piece of paper. I suppose it wouldn’t matter if I did know Chinese or not because I don’t know where anything on this campus is lol. Then when I was coming back some other lady stopped me and started talking to me. I have no idea what she was saying though. I just told her, “Sorry I don’t speak good Chinese, I’m from America.” She laughed and said something to some other guy and walked away. I guess it’s good I can at least make my own excuse in Chinese lol.<\/p>\n
Anna and I did laundry yesterday though I don’t know how much of a success that was. We hand washed stuff because we don’t want to pay for the laundry card (like 60 yuan I think for 10 loads – like we’re going to do that many loads in a month). They don’t have a dryer here anyways so it seems like a waste. Though everything we washed is taking forever to dry since its \u00a0humid and there isn’t exactly a ton of airflow in our room. I opened our window hoping that some breezes will come in and help with the drying. I was thinking of hanging them on the bars outside our window like some other people do but it just looks so dirty it seemed counter productive to do that.<\/p>\n
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So today and yesterday I’ve just kind of stayed in the room and studied a bit. I’m glad I didn’t do a ton of research on Shanghai before I came so I won’t be disappointed in the sights I didn’t … Continue reading