Cold! December 11, 2009

So, a few mornings ago it snowed…yes, snowed. It was the 1st of November, and it snowed.  That day was really cold!!  The temperature was somewhere around 7 degrees Celsius. A lot of people drive in China, even if there is snow. I was worried about going back to the dorms in the snow, but my host family said it was no problem.

After I got back to the dorms, I went and visited a friend who had stayed in the U.S. for a while.  She is doing well and we went to her apartment and then went out to dinner.  We had dinner at this nice Chinese restaurant.  I talked to the family and we had a lot of left overs . Afterwards so they gave them to me.

On Monday and Tuesday we had mid-terms and had to have tests all day for the classes.  It is great now we don’t have P.E anymore because of the cold weather.  Instead, if we do well on the dictation (day to day tests we have) we can go back to the dorms. If we do bad, we have to stay after class and do self-study.

On Friday, I went to my host family and we went shopping so I could buy a winter jacket. We walked around and because I bought the jacket I got a free pearl they cut right out of the oyster.  My host family gave me 2 of theirs because they have so many.

On Sunday, we went out to the Lama Temple, Confuscious Temple and Prince Gong’s garden.  There were many people at the Lama Temple and everyone had incense and was praying.  One of the Buddhas was really tall!!  We found some incense laying around so we used that to pray.  The Confsusious Temple was really empty and one charm you could right your wish on and hang around the palace was really expensive!!  It was 100 yuan!  That is a lot!!

After walking around there, we went to Prince Gong’s place and that had a lot of tour groups.  It was pretty and there were a lot of exhibitions inside Temples.  Toward the end we went to Yashow and just walked around.  Today is the first day of Winter so we had dumplings and they were yummy.

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