05-28-2016

My teacher invited me to a Chinese concert!

05-27-2016

I hate how awkward I look in this picture, but it's the only picture I have from today. This is a picture of the people that showed up to our speaking class today, along with the teacher.

05-26-2016

Picture of the karaoke place since we went again tonight

05-25-2016

~cute doge at Korean restaurant~

There is actually another one too, smaller and black. They are both cute. The owners seem to let them out when the lunch crowd dies down.

05-24-2016

Office asked me to come sign something and of course they are not in when I am not in class

05-23-2016

Finally went to Tengwang Pavilion today! It was a shame that the weather wasn't too great :(

05-22-2016

Since today was not productive, I thought I would upload a picture of my airline food from the Beijing trip

Not gonna lie, it was actually pretty good (but then again going to Beijing was breakfast food and we got served the most flavorless porridge I have ever tasted)

05-21-2016

hai der

05-20-2016

For speaking class today, we visited friends of our teacher who demonstrated proper tea preparation, drinking, and pouring techniques. The lady in the white and the lady behind my classmate on the left were the hostesses. The rest of the people are some of my classmates, all from Kazakhstan. My teacher is the one who took this picture.

05-19-2016

Inside a hallway of the building where my boss works. He had students in his office, so I waited for them to finish their discussion before I walked in and took this picture in the meantime.

05-18-2016

View from the soup place I ate at yesterday for lunch. If you continue walking down the road where the trees are, you will reach my dorm.

05-17-2016

Dinner with lots of other exchange students! This was only one side of the table. I'm the only girl in this picture.

We got together for Petteri (he is the blonde guy with his eyes closed) because he is returning home to Finland next week due to health reasons :( I didn't know him too well, but it's still sad to hear that someone is leaving.

05-16-2016

Wow, it's actually sunny in Nanchang~

05-15-2016

I sort of have an unofficial part time job on campus and my boss gave me this a few days ago. It's tea specially made in Jiangxi (which is significant because that's the province where I am going to school).

05-14-2016

My teacher invited me to a tea party, which was more like an etiquette class on how to properly drink tea. This is the room it was held in.

05-13-2016

(So I guess my entry from yesterday is not going to load and I will need to go on my computer to fix that..)

Karaoke! It was super fun (and thankfully lots of English songs!)

05-11-2016

我很喜欢豆腐～

05-10-2016

Awesome post first-time-I-ran-in-a-super-long-while meal with my workout buddy! (obviously not pictured) She's a classmate from Kazakhstan and she is super nice. We also went to lunch today, and that was good as well.

05-09-2016

05-08-2016

Inside the restaurant where we had our final real meal in Beijing. The portions were rather expensive for how small they were, but the food (sweet potato slices, mushrooms, skewers of bacon rolled up with stuff inside, and skewers of lamb if I remember correctly) was very good.

05-07-2016

At the Summer Palace!

05-06-2016

In the Temple of Heaven Park. I guess I should have posted a picture of the more famous and noteworthy temple, but I thought this was prettier, partly because it is impossible to take a good picture without a lot of people in it.

05-05-2016

Great Wall! In this picture, you can see that there is a person standing in the distance which normally I would mind, but since it was only one and quite far away, I think it is actually a nice touch.

05-04-2016

Outside the Forbidden City in Beijing! I also got a picture of Mao and I while we were here.

05-03-2016

These were pads to wipe excess oil from your face, which is why the disclaimer under the 'caution' header about not feeling good both amused and scared me.

05-01-2016

Taken on the day I hung out with my Chinese friend. Her friends were all taking pictures of their bubble balloons, so she got a picture of that and I pretended to do the same.

05-02-2016

The elevators break a lot (although I've seen different letters on the elevator indicator, and I'm trying to figure out what they all mean)