Finally

We have the internet again! There's something about China in that when you have a problem, you just have to wait around until someone else gets around to fixing this problem. No matter how frustrated you feel or how much you complain, you usually just have to wait it out.

Saturday we went shopping at Sanlitun's Yashow market and I spent wayyyy too much money, Sat night we sat around at Lush chatting for several hours, and on Sunday I literally did nothing. Well, Cheng and his Qinghua friends came here to eat Uighur food for dinner, but other than that. Nothing.

I just found out that tomorrow my program is hosting a lecture from a couple prominent Chinese literary translators, and my prof invited me to eat dinner with them beforehand since I'm doing my research project on this very subject. How coincidental and fortunate! Hopefully I'll get enough information tomorrow night to put together a good presentation next week, and then I'll have more time to kick around Beijing instead of worrying about research.

Only two more weeks. Yikes. Also, just so you all know, today is the first of December and the temperature this afternoon was probably in the 60's. Mmm global warming.(Photo after our Chinese competition. My team (Heli Bote) won! :)