Student Activites Fair

Thursday, September 13th, 2008



It’s Thursday and I don’t have class until 6:30pm tonight! Yay! The class is intermediate Chinese. Tonight we actually have to take an evaluation exam which includes, oral, reading, and writing. My troubles will come when writing comes my way. We have to write an essay with 100 characters describing Shanghai. I’ll begin cramming soon since I forget how to write a lot of the characters. I guess I should have started that over the summer, right?

Well besides tonights class, I woke up at good ol’ 10:30pm and went to the activities fair. I made a video of a tour of some of campus on my lovely bike, but it’s too big for youtube so it’s posted on facebook because that seems to be the only place that will let me post anything. But send me an e-mail if you’d like the video as well, sharonshi21@gmail.com. I’m trying to figure out how to go about making it smaller and posting it but I haven’t been receiving the responses I’ve been waiting for, go figure. But here is a clip of a group at the fair.

http://youtube.com/watch?v=0kZTyrKRZdI

I found out most of the music groups have already formed and they are mainly at the fair to sell tickets to their events. I was disappointed because I wanted to join the modern dance group but they were selling tickets. And I believe tickets were 100rmb. But I have received fliers that are directed more towards international students. For example, the Euro-North American Foreign Association. The association basically lets students know about sporting events, working opportunities, parties, nightlife, shopping, dinning, flight ticket discounts, charity organizations, Chinese language partners, foreign student legal aid and company field trips and so on. So I think I’m going to check that out.

Last night, a bunch of us went to this Japanese restaurant called Tairyo in the French Concession for our friend Jonathan’s birthday. The great thing about the Japanese restaurants here is that they have an all you can eat and drink buffet. The one we went to was 150rmb per person. But it’s totally worth it if you’re a big eater. Out of the 20-ish of us, I think only 5 of us got the buffet, but we enjoyed it very much! We had a chance to choose anything we wanted. The service was kind of slow and they never really brought out my lamb or chicken steak but I also took this time to eat as many fruits as possible. It was quite a delicious meal. We’re thinking about going there or somewhere similar for an eating contest. Wouldn’t that be great?!

Classes are getting in depth and I’m slacking because I feel like I’m on vacation. I’ve decided on my 4 classes. International marketing, Westerners in China 1600-, International Political Economics, Modern Chinese History, along with taking Chinese.

Besides that, Shanghai is also having a marathon on November 25th. I’m in no shape for the marathon or the half, but I’m hoping to run the 4.5k, which is less than 3 miles. I’ve printed the registration form, now it’s just a matter of filling it out and figuring out where i am suppose to go to turn it in. The FIFA Women’s World Cup is also being held in Shanghai. There a bunch of going to the game on this Friday. The game is a double header, starting with Argentina vs. Japan at 5pm and England vs. Germany at 8pm. When in a lifetime do you get to go to the world cup? Yes, it’s womens…but it’s still going to be great! Well I suppose that’s it for now. I’m off to cram some Chinese for the next 3 hours!