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Hi everyone, not very interesting this week i'm afraid!
Moved out of the uni on thursday to tina's flat. Most of my friends have now left BJ, so there's not much to do now until Mum, Dad and Dan get here! Can't wait to show you around though!! Just trying to plan hotels and things, the trip down to xi'an to see the terracotta army and various other sight-seeing trips.
It's so nice to be able to cook for myself now, no more greasy uni canteen food :P except I really don't know what half of the ingedients in the cupboards actually are!!
That's basically it, speak to you soon! xxxx

Passed my exams!

So we had the written paper yesterday, I got 81, and for the oral today I got 91. (it's out of 100 and the pass mark is 60) Really pleased with that, I thought I failed the written paper! And I got an easy topic for the oral...it's because I picked lucky number 8 topic card!!

We had the graduation ceremony this afternoon. My teacher chose me to go up to the front and collect the certificates for our class, but I didn't understand what I had agreed to do (my chinese is so bad) so I was a bit confused and messed it up! We then went for the graduation meal in the canteen.

We have a lesson tomorrow (don't ask me why) and then that's it. Leaving the uni on thursday and going to Tina's.

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Exams *sigh*

Haven't written anything this week, because not much has happened! It's been quite a buusy week work-wise - we have exams, written tomorrow and oral on Tuesday.

On Thursday we went on another class trip, this time to go and see a Kung Fu show...It was amazing!! At one point, this guy lat down on 3 big swords with a board of nails on top of him, then another man lay on top of the board and a big concrete block was put on him. Then another guy got a hammer and started hitting the concrete block until it broke. There people are seriously crazy!!

Er went for a walk around Ho Hai last weekend, ate Beijing Duck on Monday with Erica, Michele and Anna (duck brain tastes like liver by the way), went to a market yesterday, that's been about it this week! The weather has been really nie today, I actually went out without a coat...will probably be cold again tomorrow though :(

Can't believe the course finishes on Wednesday, seems like I only just got here! I have learnt so much Chinese though it's so good :)

Thanks everyone who's still actually reading this :P xxxx

great wall etc

helloooo

So we went to an unrestored bit of the wall on Sunday, Erica's host mum's brother drove us there. It was about a 4 hour hike from the village to the wall, it was like sheet ice on the paths so tricky walking. Our guide was a 14 year old girl from the village, she spoke very fast Chinese so it was hard to talk to her, but we tried our best! Really stunning views from the top (see pics). when we got back to the village we were invited to eat there, the girl's family always cook for the visitors when they come back down the mountain. We had a whole chicken (i mean whole - feet and everything!), some omlette thing, soup, veg, really nice hot bread and some pancake things made out of corn - they grow huge amounts of corn by the village. it was a really yummy meal!

Haven't done much else this week, mainly been working...Found a language partner though the other day, there are 2 girls who want to improve their English so me and Erica are meeting with them a few times a week to do some conversation practice etc. Everyone has like 3 different language partners each here it's crazy!

Went bowling again today with some friends - and some random people I didn't know, but it's all good :)

yeah i think that's all...