if only
yesterday our professor for law of international sales, finance and carriage didn't come again. with a name like john shijian mo, you just know he's too busy trying to advance his career outside of being a professor to really care about teaching.
anyway, over breakfast jinni said let's visit the great wall, just like we would have said let's go catch a movie back in singapore, if class was cancelled. a clear blue sky, barely any wind - the day was perfect.
we even made it back in time for jinni's modern chinese history class, which i attended with her. since most of my modules are of the mind-numbingly boring kind, being 双语课 - taught in english and chinese, not much more than exercises in translation - i have decided that i will go on doing this, because classes taught in chinese are infinitely more interesting and fulfilling.
for instance, yesterday, i slept for half of jinni's class, and she woke me up in the second half to watch a video on 圆明园, which made me feel extremely angry at westerners for being power-hungry imperialists and stealing china's national treasures and refusing to return them, even now.
this is what it's like to trace one's roots i guess. haha.
yesterday our professor for law of international sales, finance and carriage didn't come again. with a name like john shijian mo, you just know he's too busy trying to advance his career outside of being a professor to really care about teaching.
anyway, over breakfast jinni said let's visit the great wall, just like we would have said let's go catch a movie back in singapore, if class was cancelled. a clear blue sky, barely any wind - the day was perfect.
we even made it back in time for jinni's modern chinese history class, which i attended with her. since most of my modules are of the mind-numbingly boring kind, being 双语课 - taught in english and chinese, not much more than exercises in translation - i have decided that i will go on doing this, because classes taught in chinese are infinitely more interesting and fulfilling.
for instance, yesterday, i slept for half of jinni's class, and she woke me up in the second half to watch a video on 圆明园, which made me feel extremely angry at westerners for being power-hungry imperialists and stealing china's national treasures and refusing to return them, even now.
this is what it's like to trace one's roots i guess. haha.
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