Minnie Mouse in China!

Thursday, November 1st, 2007



Happy Halloween! Maybe a little late…but that’s okay. For Halloween this year I was Minnie Mouse:) This is a picture of my friend Nick and I. I was Minnie Mouse of course, and he was a runner.

minnie

Chinese people don’t really celebrate Halloween, like the whole trick or treating thing. Fudan actually did though. I didn’t get a chance to go to the party on campus because I had class but I did bike past it. There was a big pumpkin out in front and then I heard music playing. I was talking to my language partner about it yesterday and he said that no one really dresses up but they do dance. Halloween was fun though. Everybody dressed up and we went out. Here’s a group of some of us all dressed up.

everybody

We had a panda, runners, peter pan, chinese dolls, lady bug, togas, and ect. It was a lot of fun. Maybe the best Halloween I’ve had in awhile! But Halloween in China has come to an end and November has come. Happy November! I can’t believe how fast this semester is going by. Too quick! If I had the power to slow it down, I would.

So I met with another language partner yesterday. His name is C, or at least that’s what he told me to call him. He’s 23 years old and this is his last year at Fudan. He’s studying computer science but he doesn’t like it. He said the coding and everything is really hard so he’s going to give up. That stinks. But he said next year he’s going to Peking to study law. Which ones harder? Law or computer science? I’m not sure. He was really nice and helped me with my reading for my Chinese class. My reading is horrible. When you don’t study it for a summer, I basically forgot almost everything.:( I need to study my Chinese more. Oy. I also learned that all the students here, since the majority of them are required to live on campus, have a curfew for their dorms at 10:30pm. I tried inviting him out with us but he said if he isn’t back in his dorm by then, he can’t get in. That stinks. That ruins the social life. But he said he hangs out with the people in his dorms which is pretty good I suppose.

I went to this language partner meeting the other day and came out with 3 language partners. Their all freshman and their names are Stella, Ratha and Trista. They’re all girls but I don’t really think they want to be my language partner. They more of wanted me as a friend to go shopping with so I guess that’s fine. Then that night, I went to Chinese class and my teacher had gotten me 4 language partners. She only knew 2 of them were boys so I was going to give the other 2 to someone else. But the 2 guys I know that are looking for a language partner only want girls, apparently it’s weird if they have a guy language partner. So now I have 4 additional and their names are C, John, Kevin, and Latios. The only one I’ve met so far is C, but I’m meeting the others sometime next week. So now I have 8 language partners, also Moon who I met 2 weeks ago. Hopefully my Chinese will get a lot better by it because I’m not really learning anything in my Chinese class. And if anyone is reading this and wants one of my language partners, be my guest! Just let me know and I’ll hook you up:)

Today I don’t really have class but I do have a lot of work to do. I need to do my take home mid term for Modern Chinese History, start studying for my surprise mid term for International Business (which is definitely not cool Prof. Chisholm, who also gave us a surprise paper, but that won’t be due until December 7), and apply for internships. I don’t really have a problem filling out the applications, I just need to write my cover letters. Ugh, cover letters, those ugly things. So I guess I’ll get on that. I should have a lot of free time this weekend. Everyone in the UC program is going away this weekend to Dalian. I hope you guys have fun! So less people to distract me, but I’ll still go out. Hoping to hang out with my Australian, French, and Italian friends this weekend! But we’ll see! Hope all is well:)