12-07-2019

 

Spent the afternoon/evening practicing our routine, this time in costume! Our teacher seemed pleased with our progress.

 

And of course, an obligatory bathroom selfie

12-06-2019

 

We have an assignment for my Ancient Literature class where we have to 'perform' a poem, which consists of singing the words and choreographing a short dance to it. This is what we have so far! Seeing it on video is actually pretty cool. And the latter half we just learned today because it was changed from another movement we had before that we couldn't really get coordinated correctly. I am first from the left in the front row. There's a girl with blue jacket and long black hair in the back row, kind of diagonal from me - she is my Mongolian classmate. All of the other classmates are Chinese, although one of those classmates is of Mongolian ethnicity. There is one guy in our group, and the rest are girls. The guy is the one who took the video - he doesn't have a dancing part, he does some acting later on in our performance along with a narration of the poem.

(edit: just listened to the video on the blog and there's a lot of background noise, like the phone also picked up another group practicing?? Which is weird because it didn't sound like that when I played the video on WeChat..)

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