12-05-2019

 

I went to a Chinese corner event today! The teacher leading the event is in two of the pictures and is wearing an orange top. The other two girls are students from Russia. The man is from Korea, and the boy with him is his son. Chinese corner was fun, I learned new Chinese words and learned not only about Chinese culture, but a little bit about culture in Korea and Russia.

12-04-2019

 

 The pond/lake/water feature thing at my school with ice and snow

12-03-2019

 

Yesterday's dinner. I'm blanking on the name. I was actually a little disappointed when I ordered it because I wanted soup/broth, but this was SO GOOD. I know it looks plain, but still SO GOOD.

12-02-2019

 

My modern Chinese literature professor is on a business trip, so there was no class this morning. However, I forgot and arrived at the south campus early, so I bought breakfast in the cafeteria. Noodles with vegetables and tofu. Only ¥1. Not that the bowl was very big, but I don't usually eat very much for breakfast anyway.

12-01-2019

 

韭菜 (chives) and 鸡蛋 (egg) dumplings that I had for lunch on Friday at the south campus cafeteria

11-30-2019

Inner Mongolia Museum! I was here just a week ago, but at that time there was no snow! 

The reason I came back is because there is a theater next to the museum (you can see the entrance on the right side of the photo), and my friend wanted to go see a movie.

There are movies at this theater, but it turns out that what we had tickets for was not a movie, but actually a play/show activity for kids.  

My understanding is that the plot was something like this: a prince named 泡泡王 (Prince of Bubbles) had a Princess friend that got taken away by a villain or something? (I know, original.) But he didn't have bubbles or bubble powers, so him and his friend-zoned female sidekick visited a scientist who helped them make bubbles and give him bubble powers. Then you know the rest - bad guy is defeated, princess is saved, everyone lives happily ever after, yadda yadda yadda.

 

It was really cute though because they asked some kids to participate in the show! Here is the female sidekick leading two kids to the scientist's lab/table thing.

There were also some really cute plot elements involving the villain for the kids to participate in. The first is that when the villain was being 'defeated', he ran off stage and then through the middle of the auditorium. The 'good guys' called out something along the lines of, "小朋友，快点儿抓住他！" (Kids, quick, catch him!) and then the kids ran to the villain as he was making his way back to the stage 😁

Later, the villain admitted his misdeeds and apologized. Then the 'good guys' asked the kids if it was okay to forgive him and have him join in the next bubble activities. Of course they said yes 😊

Another thing that they did with some kids that went on stage was ask them what their favorite animal was. Then the prince gave them bubble features of that animal. So for example, a few kids said they like cats, so the prince gave them bubble ears and a bubble tail. Obviously these didn't last very long, but it was still sweet.

 

And there were a LOT of bubbles. A. Lot.

 

A lot. of.

 

Bubbles!

And it was funny to see the kids in the front section go crazy trying to pop the bubbles 😂

I think Frederick would have enjoyed all the bubbles ^__^ Maybe even have been a little overwhelmed xD 

Also, apologies that the theater pictures are not great. I really should have used my American phone, my Chinese phone takes really crappy pictures..

11-29-2019

 

Snow day! The top picture was taken from the fifth floor of the south campus classroom building, where I first saw the snow before venturing into the winter wonderland.

 

There's an outdoor stairwell leading to the cafeteria, and this picture was taken from the top (third) floor looking out.

 

South campus, a parking lot

 

South campus

This is a zoomed in version of a photo I took from the 6th floor

 

North campus

Near the south campus gate. As you can probably guess from the cars, there is some parking here.

 

North campus

Turned the camera to the left after taking the above picture. Here you can actually see the south gate. And more parking.

 

And saw a couple snowmen!

I'm having trouble reading the right side of the note, but basically it is a request for the public to only look and not touch this lovely friend.

 

Two friends in one!