Booooooo (or should I say ?)

Wow today was very draining.

This morning our chinese class went really fast and was bu hao yisi (boo how E suh=embarassing). Every time I think about them teaching us Chinese I feel that its somewhat like throwing spaghetti at a wall and seeing how much sticks. Sometimes I feel like I am in front of a firing squad, but instead of bullets (or spaghetti) they just keep throwing Chinese characters, sentence patterns and grammar at me.

After class we went to a noodle place and it was so crowded that we had to sit with a random dude. I talked to him a bit (IN CHINESE!) and then most of the rest of them went to sociology class while I came back to the dorms to take a much needed nap. I have found that doing this whole ordeal is a lot like when I was in high school, when I was forced to wake up at an ungodly early hour and then had too take naps because I was continually sooooo tiiiirrreeeed. I tried to nap for only half an hour but I think my body needed more deep sleep so it kind of turned into more like an hour. I woke up in time for Literature, though.

We read 'A Madman's Diary' for today which was pretty interesting. The weird thing about taking an english class taught by a chinese person, however, is that some people's ideas sometimes get lost in translation, so some of the nuances of what people say are just breezed over. Still, its nice being eased into an english class when you haven't taken one since Freshman year of college. I had like 30 minute after class to study chinese and then I had film. This is where it gets painful.

This class was 3 hours all in Chinese about film, all our papers will be in Chinese and all our Presentations will be in Chinese... First of all, I can't sit and pay attention to ANYTHING for three hours, let alone not in my native language, so really, this class was brutal, and will continue to be so. We talked for like 3 hours about Film stuff like camera angles and techniques, or something I'm not really sure--essentially I felt really dumb. And the guy STILL went 15 minutes over until 9:15 PM!!! C'mon now! I have to study other things! I have to switch out of this class pronto...I will be talking to people tomorrow about that.

Because of this lonnngg class, I had no dinner so came back RAVENOUS and went to the convenience store to find some food (Diet Coke and Lays is dinner, I guess) and saw a guy puking on the street. cute.

Off to study.