Last week I did manage to accompany a group of my classmates to the new 007 movie at a movie theater. It was in English with Chinese subtitles. We debated going to see it in the theater or waiting until they have it on DVD two days later but we decided that Bond deserved or company at the big screen. It was really good but a little frustrating because when the characters started speaking in Spanish the subtitles were still in Chinese. I know a little Spanish but not enough to follow when they speak so fast. Hmmm... that's awfully similar to my Chinese situation :) The rest of the week was pretty uneventful but I did make an observation about class attendance. Usually at this point in the semester you start to notice a little thinning in the class ranks. People start to skip class more often but they show up most of the time. I have never seen so many students skip class as often as they have started to do here. And I will not exempt myself from this group either. I can honestly say that getting out of bed to go to class is a very difficult internal struggle. Even doing my homework takes all of my will power. Having the same class every day is starting to wear on all of us and it's only going to get worse because we have two 15 page papers due on the 23rd of December. We are all at the point that we just want to travel and not do any more work. We have one more 3 day trip to a small province that's 2 hours away and a few of us want to take a weekend trip to Beijing as well. Hopefully those two trips will help with the restlessness that's been spreading.
Yesterday I finally made it over to the fabric market to get a few jackets made. It is 4 stories of every kind of fabric imaginable. You can select one of their designs or bring in a picture of what you want made and they measure you and tell you to come back a week later. I can't wait to see how my stuff turns out! After the fabric market and our trip to Tibet I have decided that I will have to buy another suitcase if I'm going to be able to bring all of my stuff back.
This week for our contemporary society class we had to interview one of our Chinese friends about the one-child policy in China. We had a series of questions about what they thought of it, how they felt about the preference for a male child, and whether or not they wanted siblings growing up. We had to type up field reports and email them to our professor and she selected a few of them to present in class. She selected mine because I talked about being an only child and how Ruby's experiences were similar or different from mine. It's a pretty interesting topic because everybody's interviewee was in favor of the policy. They all believed it was necessary because China has so many people. If I was in the politics class I would consider doing my final paper on the one-child policy. However, I'm in the economics class and have no idea what I should write my final paper on. Economics isn't exactly my forte :)
Well, my 1 hour is up and I don't have much else to tell you because all I did was sleep last week. I plan to go on a few adventures this weekend and next week so I will have some more stories later. Oh, and I also have one request for all of you: on Thanksgiving, no matter how full you are, eat an extra plate for me!!!
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I'm going to be eating AT LEAST three separate Thanksgiving dinners. I'll probably end up consuming more than enough for the both of us.
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