This was written weeks later, after things had changed up and then settled down. It has not been edited, to preserve my original thoughts.
如今还没有空，但这此关我什么事儿呀？*
So! Been a long time! Finally bothered to find a new proxy server. I really hate those damn censors.
What’s new? I’ve since traveled to Inner Mongolia, Shanghai, Hangzhou, southern Anhui, and Xi’an. I’ve moved across the city to a different university (首都经济贸易大学), started a new program, learned some slang, and next week I turn 21! Everything’s just neat-o. I begin to get tired of being in the tiny minority of foreigners, but in Beijing it’s not so bad. Even in this part of Beijing, the Central Business District, it wears on you — but it could be worse. I know some folk at the Yale-in-Peking program at Beijing University, my friend moved here from the states for the year, and my Chinese is much better.
I’ll try and find time to add more stuff this week, now that I sort of have a semi-not-really-convenient way of doing so. Interestingly (not really) I have wa-a-ay more work this semester than I thought I would. On a given weekday I have almost no free time, and I already manage to waste too much of my not-free time doing things like sleeping or eating. Bah, I say.
*(I will always continue to try and stretch the limits of the things I know how to write in Chinese. Obviously I’m likely to screw it up. Just so you know I know.)
