Monday, June 27, 2016

06-22-2016

Mango ice cream before dinner (my friend introduced me to the place!) IT WAS SOO GOOD

06-23-2016

On my campus. The building in the background is the classroom building where I had all my academic classes

06-24-2016

I had KFC in China today for the first time huehue

06-25-2016

Finally went to the Nanchang Star, a ferris wheel closer to downtown!

06-26-2016

Went to Papa John's today! (I still refuse to eat it in the US, Cynthia and Elise)

06-27-2016

Went to Wanda Theme Park today!
(also no it wasn't raining, people have umbrellas out because it was somewhat sunny)

06-21-2016

I think this might post upside down, but a friend and I exchanged money from our home countries today! Now I have Euros even though I have never been to Europe 😀

Monday, June 20, 2016

06-20-2016

Dinner with friends :3
Fish, chicken, bamboo shoots, and 皮蛋 (I don't quite know how to explain it in English cause my translator app literally reads 'a kind of preserved egg', maybe I will try Googling it at some point)

06-19-2016

Went to the tallest building in Nanchang with my teacher and her son, her nephew, and her son's childhood friend. (Actually the outside of the building is a picture which is already on my blog! Just look for the post with a picture of a tall building, and it is that one.) The weather was stormy today but that made for some interesting pictures.

06-18-2016

Pizza Hut in China!

Friday, June 17, 2016

06-15-2016

Rainwater pouring like waterfalls

06-16-2016

I want seat pillows like this.
Seen in the parking lot after karaoke

06-14-2016

Cute kitty in Shanghai

06-17-2016

I ran into a friend because he was eating dinner with his friends at the same place I was. They were celebrating his birthday, and he asked where my friends were. I said they were out clubbing. He wished me well then returned to his friends and they went to buy drinks (beer). 
But he came up to me again with this mango juice and said, 'I figured you wouldn't like beer, so I bought you this instead.' I already had a drink (my Coca-Cola in the picture) but it was really nice of him.

Monday, June 13, 2016

06-13-2016

Because I didn't do anything today and this is very important.
I never knew there was a way to take green tea ice cream to the next level until I went to McDonald's in Shanghai. 

Sunday, June 12, 2016

06-12-2016

Today I took the HSK Level 3 exam! This exam tests Chinese proficiency in the areas of listening, reading, and writing. There are 6 different levels.
I was the only person who showed up even though I'm pretty sure there was supposed to be at least one more. The exam went relatively well, but I think it's about 30 days until I receive my official results.

Saturday, June 11, 2016

Friday, June 10, 2016

06-10-2016

Entrance to our hotel in Shanghai! 
It was rated pretty terribly on Booking.com, but it doesn't seem that bad to me.

06-09-2016

Being a rebel at West Lake in Hangzhou! There's a sign on the bench which reads 'no lying down', in case you can't read it.

Wednesday, June 8, 2016

06-08-2016

Made it to Hangzhou!
I'm travelling with three friends and we will be here until Friday afternoon, after which we will go to Shanghai. We arrived quite late in the day and so didn't do anything noteworthy. Tomorrow we will begin sightseeing to more popular attractions.

Tuesday, June 7, 2016

06-07-2016

The studio! I was referred by another international student to do recording since her native language isn't English. I worked with a guy from Britain and we read dialogues which are going to be used to teach Chinese students English. I enjoyed it, and on the plus side, it was also good money - I earned more than American minimum wage, and all I had to do was read excerpts at a controlled speed.

06-06-2016

Relatively new tea place at the supermarket near school with cute decor. This is one of three teddy bears in the shop.

06-05-2016

Yummy!
Going on my future Instagram blog

Saturday, June 4, 2016

06-04-2016

Saw this sign at Coco's today while I was waiting for a milk tea.
Needless to say, I will be back very soon...
..like I might have toyed with the idea of going back later to buy a second tea 
(but I also wouldn't know which one to pick, they all look so good ;~;)

Thursday, June 2, 2016

05-31-2016


Took this picture while at Tengwang last week, and it makes me laugh.

06-03-2016

cheesin' while chinese'n
This was during my speaking class, and we were covering how to say various feelings. When the picture was taken, we were playing a game where another classmate had to say a feeling in Chinese and then I had to act it out. My teacher says that I am good at facial expressions.

06-02-2016

Went to a coffee shop to study with a friend because we are both taking the HSK (except she is taking level four and I am taking three) and we ordered this to share :3

06-01-2016


flood antics

05-30-2016

One of the various (incorrect) shirts I've seen like this. The original text is 'Love you nearly as much as Kanye loves himself'. I've even seen one shirt which spelled his name 'Canye'..

05-29-2016

It's hard to make out what exactly is going on at the moment in this picture. Yesterday while I was waiting for my teacher to pick me up for the concert, I saw some girls wearing graduation gowns who were taking pictures while holding sticks as if they were wands. I thought it was really cute.
This is just inside the main gate of my campus.