The day after we got to Chengdu we started school. At first I wanted to punch myself in the face because the language class was super hard. It pretty much skipped a whole year ahead of what I had been taught. Luckily I wasn't the only one who felt like they were drowning. So we went down a book but are going through it like speed demons. I've traveled around the city to different places and ate lots of different kinds of food. (korean bbq, chinese style bbq, noodles, jiaozi, rice, american dishes, mexican food, meat on a stick, hotpot...and so on)
The area around campus is always full of life. On the west side of campus is the tibetan street. (where there are lots of tibetan food/shops etc) Out the east gate, which is right next to the dorms is a fruit vendor and noodle place among the other numerous things. We love love love love the noodle place. We (being me, Erica, Vivian, Mark) are regulars. Not only is the food consistently good but they hold one of the only chinese guys that any of us find attractive. The way in chinese to call a guy handsome is shuai (shhhhwhy) when using it to describe someone you would say shuai ge (ge sounds like the ge in gerber). So we call this place shaui ge noodes. (yes the L is left out on purpose)
Since being here, on top of school we've gone to several museaums and just ventured out on our own. It was way too too hot when we first got here to. I don't think I've ever sweat so much in my life. ew.
One of the first weekends we were here, our friends that live in a huge apartment threw a party. It was pretty fun...they made me make drinks (it was quickly spread that I bartended back home). At one point we had a cake fight.
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
No comments:
Post a Comment