Friday Night sumup

Ok, so it's hard to post during the week because when I'm not eating or in class, I'm doing homework or sleeping. But Friday is our day of rest. (After taking our weekly test of course). This week's was wayyy harder than last week's. But I am not really stressed about the work as much. I know I am keeping up with the grammar even though memorizing characters is still pretty difficult. But more importantly I can already see how much my classmates and I have improved in our conversations with each other. That's really what's exciting. It's a lot easier to be social and we're even able to make jokes now. This language pledge isn't so annoying after all.

Other happenings of the week: I decided I'm going to Inner Mongolia for my social study week and I'm going to write my paper on Inner Mongolian folk dance and music. So that should be fun. Also, extracurriculars have started. So far my Chinese popular music extracurric has been fun. I listened to Beijing Huan Ying Ni like fifty times. I wish I was exaggerating. I am compulsively looking up Chinese pop music now and I can't wait to go KalaOK-ing. Also today we went to see Toy Story 3. In IMAX 3D. In English but with Chinese subtitles. Since we were in an American mood we had dinner at MaiDangLao (McDonald's). The food was pretty much the same as U.S. Mickey D's except my meal cost about 3 dollars US. So then we went to our really plush/pretty theater, that sold us tickets that were still 11dollars US! I felt so cheated. But Toy Story was amazing. I cannot even talk about how much I love Toy Story. So I won't. It was great, not gonna lie, I sorta cried several times. I'm so glad our generation has grown up with Andy.

Then we attempted to take the train home, but people here go to bed insanely early so when we tried to transfer trains the trains had stopped running. So we had to exit the station and try to get cabs which literally would drive past us and pick up Chinese people. But we all finally got on cabs and now I'm back in my room. Tired but happy.