Class all day, homework all evening, studying all night… ah, my second semester in Beijing has truly begun.
It’s a strange feeling of deja vu. It’s a new semester, with a higher level of language classes and new textbooks and new classmates and new kids in the program – but at the same time, it’s like going through the motions all over again. The only thing that’s really different is the people; I miss my good friends from last semester. Oh, and the weather is different too. Beijing is cold!
If last semester was anything to go by, I’m going to be run off my feet in the next few weeks until everything feels routine-like. Or, I decide it’s time to give myself a break and give myself more time to go out and be social rather than be shut up studying all the time. It’s also hard to find time to spend on the Internet when it’s even more difficult to find a good Internet connection. Oh, China.
I seem to have already lost the ability to string together two coherent sentences in English. My goodness. I’m not even sure what I’m trying to say. Except that hi, I haven’t died, I’m just insanely busy as per my life in Beijing!!
Amanda, it sounds like you are working hard every day. I do hope that your experience is as neat as you would like it to be and that fluency is a good goal. Happy spring term. I would love to hear all about it in person when you get back!
I’d love to catch up when I get back! Right now, it looks as though I’ll be in Chicago briefly around the end of July/beginning of August, as I plan to spend my summer in China.
Your friends from last semester miss you toooo!!!!!