北京 (Beijing)
I’ve been here in Beijing for two weeks tomorrow. (i started writing this the first week i was here) Sorry to my friends who I haven’t updated since I’ve been here. Things are well but I’ve had a few difficulties, but none so far have been unmanageable…
The flight from DC was 3 hrs late because they were fixing the a/c, with us sitting in it. After I arrived in Beijing, one of bags didn’t make it over. It came yesterday. On the flight water got spilled in my laptop and didn’t work for a while, but now it does. Then me and my friend (lulu) had trouble at the hotel bc we weren’t married. then i went to an atm machine that didn’t have right symbols and i tried it and it gave me a reciept for 1,000 yuan but didn’t give me the money. found out today it didn’t go through. the next day at school i found out the dorms are full and must stay in a hotel 15min walk from campus, not very convenient. so yesterday with help of lu’s friends i bought a bicycle.
i just finished my placement test. my speaking skills are much better than reading and writing skills. tomorrow will be the first class and bf class must go to check the results. riding a bicycle around is a great way to get around town, there is a special lane for bikes along side the road.
one night the first week we (albert and i) left our ac on too low, the ac dripped onto the desk below and the next morning my school books and laptop were soaked. my battery is shot and all else seems to be working, hopefully nothing else has been damaged. oh, then we found out we used a months worth of ac in our first week. they didn’t tell us we could only use 4 hours of ac a day. know we now and conserve. enough complaining…