Copying and pasting from emails sent to friends again b/c I'm totally supposed to be studying for a test right now:
Sept. 22: Shanghai went by with pretty much no real problems, though I did end up spending quite a lot of money... Right now is the Mid-Autumn Festival so everyone in China is relaxing and eating mooncake. My group doesn't have class for the rest of the week, and so most of us are traveling for the next few days. A friend and I are actually heading off to Beijing later tonight. Hoping this trip turns out as problem-less as the Shanghai trip (except this trip is already looking to be less expensive even though we'll be staying there longer). :)
Today: So the Beijing trip went by okay. We ended up only being able to stay there for three days total, so we didn't have the opportunity to see much... in the end, we saw the Great Wall, Tian'anmen, the Forbidden Palace, and the Olympic Park area. I really wanted to see the Summer Palace, but we ended up not having time to. ;__;
But. The friend who I went with was kind of a downer most of the time. Basically, China was different from what she was expecting and she isn't the adventurous type in the first place. So everytime there was any kind of setback or even a MINOR inconvenience she would act like things were terrible and that everything was so troublesome and being in China was so depressing blah blah blah. Every freaking day she would send texts and emails to this other friend of ours in this program, bitching about how terrible everything was when in reality things weren't that bad at all. By the end of the trip, I was so fucking annoyed with her. And I still am too because she's STILL acting like a total drama queen and does something that annoys me at least once a day. Like yesterday, when she couldn't find any vegetarian baozi at the baozi stand we went to for lunch, then got really frustrated and quiet, trailed behind my other friend and I when we were walking, then TURNED AROUND AND WENT BACK TO THE DORM WITHOUT SAYING A WORD. And then earlier today, when she was in the middle of eating her meal, then the waitress came and rearranged something on her tray. And then she was like, "But it's more difficult to eat it this way..... everything here is so troublesome." Then got frustrated and quiet. DAMN, JUST REARRANGE IT BACK TO HOW IT WAS BEFORE. WHY IS THAT SO HARD??
But anyway. For some very good news, I have my first Chinese email buddy! I met him on the train ride back from Beijing. I gave him my email address and he finally sent me a message earlier today. <3
Also: going to Jay Chou's concert tom. night, heading to Chengdu this Sat., then the weekend after, I'm likely going to Shanghai again over the weekend to see JYJ for what will probably be all of fifteen minutes. Unless I try stalking them at the Shanghai airport, which is something I'm seriously considering.
What? >_>;
