01.06.12

18 days left.

Every day we’ve been doing pretty much nothing at school. We still have our chinese classes but most of the time we just don’t pay attention to the teacher so she doesn’t even start the lesson. The only thing that we did this week is probably making a model of our school because our ‘DIY’ teacher gave us this homework, but mainly only Gabriele and Reetta made it, me, Ning and Jan just helped a bit.
Me, Gabriele and Reetta decided to go to our last travel, to Datong. But Reetta hesitated a bit because she thought she would be like a third wheel so in the end she decided to go to Tianjin alone. So next week on Wednesday we are going first to Beijing and then to Datong. Around 16 hours on a train, two days in Datong and then back. After that Gabri also wants to go to the Russian size club for the last time but we are not sure if somebody else is coming too.
Today something quite interesting happened. One Xinjiang student came to our classroom and started showing us magic tricks. He even told us how he does some, now I know how magic works, hehe! After that we started to talk about Xinjiang culture a bit. In China there are 56 ethnicities and in Xinjiang there are… actually some people told us 53 and some told us 13, but anyway, a lot. And each of those minorities have their own language so the guy who came there could speak his language – Kazakh, and also the most spoken language (after mandarin chinese) in Xinjiang – Uyghur. He showed us how to write hello and damn, Arabic script is so awesome.

Today my iPhone died… again. I hate this.

COMPUTER IS EVIL!!!!!!

I got a bit more time at the computer than usual and what do I start doing?
I’m getting upset…

Curse this machine!!!!!!!!111!!
Sadness, go awayyyyyyyyyyy

21.05.12

Studying is over! On Saturday we went to an HSK practice lesson (which was quite useless) and after that me, Gabriele, Reetta and Karina (German, from another school) went shopping for souvenirs to the place where Thai girls showed us. I bought a lot! I made a list and yeah… Now I’ll have souvenirs to give! After that I went home to study for HSK.
On Saturday me, Reetta, Jake, Ning and Karina were supposed to meet at the university at 8:30 (the test started at 9am) but I forgot that we had to be there half an hour before and Ning was late so we ran like crazy to the right place. We didn’t miss it so we took the test. I thought that it wasn’t that hard but it wasn’t easy either. I think I passed it but I will see only next month. By the way, you have to know 1200 characters for level 4. 600 for level 3 (Matteo took level 5 – 2500 characters). After the test we went to eat at our favorite Xinjiang restaurant Alibaba and then I met Gabri and we went to a flower park near to his home. The flower park is huge! But it was so extremely hot that for about an hour we laid down on the glass in the shadow. There last few days are so hot, +25-30C and tomorrow it’s going to be +35 (but after tomorrow it’s going to be +25).
Our school has a show for 3^rd grade students who are graduating and we were asked to do a performance and now we are working on it. Believe it or not – it’s a dance. None of us can dance. We mixed 4 songs together and the last song is Party Rock Anthem and we learned the dance in the middle of the song. It was a bit hard to learn but now it’s ok, it’s kinda cool to know that dance. But when we are practicing it’s sooooooooo hooooooooooooot!
Only 27 days left until we fly home!

Flower park.