Mood: disoriented bc I woke up at 3:18 am
Location: really chill coffee shop by hotel that plays French music
Reading: Einstein's Dreams...which Jane doesn't like when I read aloud
So we've been here for three days now. I'm not sure if the others are still culture shocked but I feel like we've been here for weeks already. Our hotel, Dong-wu, is run by the Suzhou University and seems to be frequented by foreigners regularly.
The plane trip here was mostly uneventful. Our flight to Chicago felt like it was on a remote controlled plane piloted by a toddler....which didn't take off for 2 hours bc the toddler needed a nap. On the 14 hr flight to Shanghai I sat next to a really large man who slept with his mouth open and watched "Fool's Gold" on repeat. I finished Ishmael, Jane slept, Zach watched "College Road Trip" excessively, and Adam watched the bad inflight Chinese kung fu movie.
Yesterday we went exploring, went to Suzhou Museum, and walked for ever to Renmin Lu, a pedestrian-only shopping district. Needless to say, our group is getting plenty of stares. A guard at the museum attempted conversation with me. He ended up thinking I was from New York and a huge Knicks fan.
Today was our first day of class. We worked on pronunciations the whole 3 hours. The second teacher speaks a Chinese-English combination that I guess only I could decipher. I can't imagine what everyone else was thinking.
We visited my grandparents after that and of course my grandma showered us in snacks, hugs, photo ops.
Will try to upload pictures later.
Chinglish Report:
"Square Roundness"
-a store sign
"This notebook is able to bring about comfortable writing feel for you."
Dumb Things Zach Has Said:
"It's somewhre between 'far' and 'mon' [man]"
-explaining long A pronunciation
"Ni hao, girl, ni hao"
"Is everybody in Tibet Muslim?"
"Why is China so big?"
"What's su-gar?"
-reading the Eng side of an Eng-Chinese dictionary
Things Jane Has Yelled at Me About:
"Cindy, there's poop in the toilet."
"Is that your hair on the wall?"
^^She's actually really mad at me at this moment bc I threw dough balls at her and threatened to fill her mouth with them while she slept ^_^
-Cindy
4 comments:
questions from krissy and ryan:
those are the only two things jane has yelled at you about?
anyways how's the weather?
and you've already made your mark in a chinese toilet?
have you done squatter toilets yet
have you guys picked up cute asians yet?
did zach get a job yet?
I WANNA SEE YOUR GMA
oh and we saw your comment earlier about zach's north face jacket
post pics
is it real north face?
or is it like
north base
or north jin hao
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ryan's helping me take my math placement exam for umd!!!!!
we're having sooo much fun without you
its so nicer now that you're not here
and I left that apostrophe out of its to bother you zach and jane
why hasn't adam done anything blogworthy?
everyone should be complaining about your poop
today ryan ordered pizza
bet you don't have it there
or if you do it has like
squid tentacles on it
ryan says speaking of tentacles don't forget his spongebob
oh and if you see season 3 get a copy for me too (krissy)
it was the best one
ever seen the doodlebob episode?
anyways
(ryan says he doesn't like doodlebob and is asking me to tell you this)
brb gotta beat ryan up
ryan's buying his laptop on saturday!!!
its not a mac =(
he really wanted one
he's getting some mainstream one
hp?
yeah hp
I'm getting some weird like
nerd brand
sager or asus
if you see one bootleg over in china get it for me
they're only like
two dollars there right?
-Ryan & Krissy
cindyyyyyy i miss you
are you guys keeping china quote book? don't, thats a senior week thing and i'd be jealous
email me back
love you miss you come home im bored
that sounds fantastic.
p.s. make sure that you quote some of adam's scathing comments. they always make my day brighter.
hope you're having a great time!
-sheila
Washington is boring so far. but i am going white water rafting tomorrow. eee.
BUY ME STUFF
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