Hey Everyone,
It seems winter is finally over, the city's getting warm & people are feeling frisky ( I know I am ). The new semester started a couple of weeks ago. The workload became a little more, but no reason not to take it easy. After staying in my room by myself for over a month, my new roommate finally moved in two weeks ago. His name's Tee, he's from Thailand, and he's pretty cool so far, and, as a plus: he doesn't speak much English, so yay for extra free Chinese practice everyday ( which he, gladly, speaks better than me ). Other than that, my mom came to visit me here in Shanghai beginning of the week. We had a great little dinner with some friends ( once again, thanks for joining! ) and spent a whole day out and about, and I finally got a chance to show off some of my China/Shanghai knowledge. While she had a mere three days here, I believe she enjoyed it and had some cool and sometimes 'interesting' experiences ( the latter being mostly food-related, I guess; I tried, but I couldn't get her to embrace the delights of Chinese cuisine ).
What else? We recently did the math - it's not even three months left in Shanghai anymore. Naturally, I'm excited to get back home and get on with my actual work, and naturally I already feel a bit uneasy about leaving this place and all the people here. My plans for the time to come include taking the HSK ( which is essentially a Chinese TOEFL ) and maybe also finally making my journey to the west, now that my original travel-mate-to-be is free to come along again ( we were thinking Sichuan, or maybe more exotic?; has anyone ever been to Gansu? Qinghai? Anything to be seen there? ). At any rate, we'll be on vacation ( again?! ) in three weeks from now.
So much for the update!
