09-06-2019

  

All my pictures from today look like this, meaning they are all of lecture powerpoint slides. I'll try to take more interesting pictures tomorrow.

 

My new friends!

09-05-2019

Did not take any good pictures today so here are some crappy pictures...of my bathroom! Yay.

 

Milk snack I referenced yesterday. It's good. Naisu is nice-su

09-04-2019

 

English class, huehue

 

Lunch - cold noodles (凉粉)

 

View of the south campus from one of the upper floors of my classroom building

 

Oops.

 

Finally thought to get a picture of the front of the university! I was on the bus from the south campus to the north campus when I took this picture

09-03-2019

 

P.E.

Haha. So there are multiple P.E. classes at the same time, but none of them were given a specific location, so everyone met in the lobby of the P.E. building. As you can imagine, everyone was lost for a bit. My Chinese classmates helped me get here and jump into a class (long story short, the P.E. class that I registered for is not the one I will be attending).

 

Went to the supermarket today. 

Because I am in Inner Mongolia which borders the country Mongolia and Mongolians consume a large amount of dairy, there are a lot of milk-based products in the supermarkets (especially yogurt). Chinese people actually don't care for milk-based products much, so this is interesting to me.

I took a picture of this particular product because it looks interesting and I want to know what it is. The Chinese literally translates to "milk skin", and it is in fact some sort of milk sheet made to eat, but, like, I am still curious! What does it taste like? How crunchy is it?

I was not curious enough to buy it, but that was partly because of the price (especially for something I might not even like!). I did buy a different snack though, so once I try that I'll let y'all know how it was.

09-02-2019

 

Bus stop. 

So I live on the north campus but all of my classes are on the south campus. There is a university bus that goes back and forth between both campuses at certain times.

Of course, on my first day of class, I missed the bus leaving the north campus and the next one wouldn't leave for another two hours...the international student office told me the departure time for the bus is 7:20am, but it's actually 7:10am.

Whatever. I took a taxi to the south campus.

Also, the bus stop on the north campus is not marked? So my roommate and I went around and had to ask like five different people if they knew where it was. But that's how a lot of things work around here -shrug-

 In my Contemporary Chinese Literature class (中国现代文学)

If I'm being perfectly honest, idk about this degree program and my classes, man. The being in school and learning part is fun, but I don't know if I will be able to pass the classes. But all I can do is try my best.

 

Lunch

烤冷面 (kao leng mian, it literally translates as 'fried cold noodles'? But I feel like that doesn't make sense given that they are not cold when you eat them because they are fried. Maybe a better way to explain it is that the noodles they start out with are uncooked?)

Anyways, I'm pretty sure I ate this before in Nanchang without knowing what it was.

 

Just a typical day in China. I think.

No idea what was going on. It was rush hour though, maybe that?

This was on the bus from the south campus to the north campus.

 

More expensive than I wanted to pay, but my roommate and I often order takeout 外卖 😅

This was our order on her phone.

09-01-2019

Explored campus today. These were all taken in roughly the same area, but they were the only pictures I took today.. 

Unfortunately, I didn't make it to the south campus, which is where I have classes tomorrow...so we'll see how that goes.

08-31-2019

Made it to Hohhot! (Look at the mountains in the background :D)

On campus

The bed in my dorm room. My roommate's looks exactly the same.

view outside my dorm window (aka our AC unit)