期末考试：口语

I BSed the second half because I don't think there was any point in preparing a 2-3 minute speech on something I can just talk about while normally conversing. The first half, however...

Half was written by me. Half by him. Guess who wrote what parts.

A：你怎么迟到了？
E：对不起 我没想迟到可是我刚才喝太多了。
A：你在哪儿喝了？
E：我去公主坟那边的酒吧喝的.
A：为什么？
E: 我很渴所以我认为喝一个啤酒没有问题。 我进去这个酒吧和买了一瓶啤酒。 这时我的朋友也来了这个酒吧。 所以我说“请坐，请坐， 你可以作我的旁边.” 我和我的朋友聊了一会儿天， 我说，”我得走了。 可是我的朋友跟我说“喝多一点儿才走吧.” 所以我认为，再喝多一点儿也没问题。 所以我喝了一瓶，又一瓶，又一瓶。
A：你一共喝了几瓶啤酒？
E: 我不知道， 我忘了。 可能吐了出来。我的朋友不停得买酒。然后有人打开了电视所以我们看看足球比, 赛巴塞罗那比皇马。
A：哪个队赢了？
E：巴塞罗那赢了，屋比零，巴塞罗那踢得很精彩。 看完比赛，我去公共汽车站等车。 因为很晚了，所以没有公共汽车了。只好跑步来见你。现在我很累。
A：你没问题吗？
E：没问题。你呢？等多了长时间？
A：其实，我也迟到了。我和男朋友分手了。
E：真的吗？
A：我男朋友背叛了我。看见他们... 可能因为我不会跟他上床。
E：上床是什么意思？
A：你真不知到上床是什么？
E：不知到。
A：上床的意思是... 两个人一起做爱... 是性交的意思。
E：啊，明白了。
A：横竖，我看见他们，看到前男朋友给那婊子买的新手袋。混帐。我们在一起两年，约会的时候从来没送给我东西。
E：他爸是李刚吗？
A：他爸不是李刚，可是他的条件不错。两年。而且，他跟一个丑婊子背叛了我。啊，丢脸了。他可能买了那个女人。
E：她像一个妓女吗？
A：买了一个新女朋友，何不再买三个女朋友，叫他们露丝, 格拉迪斯, 和罗斯玛丽。真受不了，我想杀死他。
E：在那刚去的酒吧，我可能看见你的前男朋友了。
A：去吧。带我去杀死他吧。

Cuz I'm so bad, bad, but I'm so good, good.
If any of the above is wrong, it's the café owner's fault for not correcting it correctly. We didn't want to say nonsense sentences. ^_^

期末考试：精度

95% yo. And 3.75 of the points taken off were from my essay that I half-assed because we have to use certain words and phrases and I really dislike having to use them in essays. It's not an essay, it's at very best a directed paragraph of a topic not of our choosing. Anyway.

Tomorrow at 8 AM (oh look less than 8 hours) is my 口语 exam. There are two parts: a 2-person dialogue and a single 2-3 minute speech on either the upcoming break or Beijing. Our prepared dialogue is not very clean. We're Americans.

I Don't Really Want To Go Home

Part of me is excited to go home and get out of this place. Part of me wants to stay here and explore more, learn more. But who am I kidding? The reality is I don't know what I want, so by staying in China I can stay blissfully ignorant to the real world. Because I will not be finding and marrying a rich Chinese guy.

I'll definitely come back. Maybe in February, or June, or September. I'll miss the people. I'll especially miss some people. But really, how well can we get to know each other when there's an essential language barrier? How many will miss my company, but not me? How many will miss me? What do I know about these people, what do they know about me?

We found a place in Beijing.

W.i.n.t.e.r.

There are have been frozen puddles on the ground. It's wintertime. I wonder how many accidents there will be because of the frozen puddles.

Being A Bear

Winter has finally arrived, ie. it's below 40 every day all the time. I haven't really gone anywhere or been out for the past month. I've become a bear. I love my room. Less than two weeks before finals and a flight back to America!

I regret not posting more. Specifically, not posting about all the things that happened following getting my Macbook back.

Public Transportation

Riding the public transportation in Beijing has made me realize two things: one, that China has some serious problems with metropolis overpopulation and two, that I really don't want to do this anymore. Especially not between 5:30 and 7:30 pm where everyone is literally pushing you as far as they can so you can all be stuffed in like sardines. Bad me, I forgot to never take public transportation in those two hours and it cost me some of my sanity. Being an American and brought up in America, I need some space. Maybe no privacy is why people are happier in come countries, but this is not privacy. This is just... so the new question now is, why do the Chinese push and shove their way to sacrificing comfort (which they are complaining about the whole way) just so they can get on the bus/train?

Tsinghua

I got into Tsinghua University to study Chinese for a semester. I thought I wanted to go, but now I'm not sure.

Tailor-Made Clothing

I am having two tailor-made 大衣s made. One is a (hopefully) replica of a red swing coat designed by Vivienne Westwood. The other is a Dorothy Perkins-esque military coat in a beautiful purple and green check I came across while looking at fabrics. They are costing me an arm and a leg (in China prices, of course), so hopefully they are completely worth it.

王府井

I ate two fried scorpions today.

I've been lazy, yes. Haven't posted. But everything has been recorded. Just, badly recorded.

Creepy Chinese Security Guy

One night whilst getting 串儿 right outside the gate of the university, I decided to be nice, benevolent, and ask the nighttime security guard if he wanted a skewer. Cuz, I mean, he was all by himself there and it was around 1 AM and really who talks to security guards? At first he is suspicious but then he agrees and says I can get him whatever skewer I want. I come back with a 羊肉串儿 and he asks me why I gave him this skewer. I tell him simply because he's out there by himself opening gates for us. He then asks me if he can have my number, to which I give him a -_- really look and say bluntly, "我不要给你我的手机号码" and walk back the steps to the dorm.