This morning, me and Nick went to eat lunch at Pyro Pizza. It's soooo expensive! Basically, we had a medium pizza where half was hawaiian and half was bbq chicken. A medium was 89 kuai! It just tasted like normal pizza, nothing special. Then afterwards, we wandered this tent place in WuDaoKou where people sold random things (street vendors all under one tent). One stand sold salamanders, koi fish and baby turtles. All the other vendors sold shirts for 5 kuai and random things like chop sticks and dried goods (raisins, dates, etc).
We didn't buy anything. After that, we went to McDonalds to get ice cream! Here, you can choose 5 different flavored cones: vanilla, grape, strawberry, mocha, and melon! It would be a regular vanilla cone with swirls of a certain color to indicate your flavor. It is just 5 kuai here, but they are yummy. Then we went to the bank. Nick took pictures of me on the big rock in front of our classroom building at the east gate. After that, we each went back to our dorms and my one hour nap turned into a 3 hour nap...ahh!
Oh btw, my classmate, Erin (american korean from oregon) bought a bunny!! She got it for 30 kuai (soooo cheap!) right outside the west gate. There are random people on bikes who sell animals outside the west and east gate haha. I don't know how she is going to hide it from the people who clean the rooms...
I also asked her what she's planning to do with it after she leaves in 3 months and she said she doesn't know (how sad...)!
So I slept from 3-6pm, woke up and then I was going to start my homework when I got a phone call from my classmates, Kim Hyun Wook! He asked if i wanted to go eat korean with him and his friend so I gladly accepted! It was just a 10 min walk from my dorm to the restaurant.
Oh and also, he arranged a hangout for tomorrow night to go to a theater near Wang fu jing to watch a chinese play. Apparantly, this is the most popular play in Beijing right now, so I decided to go. Tickets are going to be 100 kuai. Hopefully, everyone will go! It will be Kim, Me, Nick, Kyoko, Kyoko's friend, and Jennifer! It is supposed to rain tomorrow...but I'll still go anyways haha.
8:15pm I just came back from dinner with Kim Hyun Wook (korean classmate), and he brought his friend! I knew his friend because he sat behind me in class but decided to switch to B class haha. We went to this korean place above Li Xian Sheng on the 4th floor in Wu Dao Kou. It was called like "Tan tan Ya ya?" something like that. They wanted to pay. They explained to me that the elders when you go out to eat have to pay or else they lose face haha. I think the bill was a little less than 250 kuai, which is still really cheap considering what food we had!
They ordered this "cao niu rou" which cooked over a flame and then the waitress would cut off the meat for us. It was really tender and juicy, really good, even though im not a big beef fan, but this was really good. Than we had this pumpkin soup! That was very sweet and they told me that they don't add sugar to it and it is just the sugar from the pumpkin itself. Then we had this sour cold noodle dish. That was very good too. It tasted a lot like the cold noodles that we order back at home. During the meal, they kept drinking some kind of rice wine thing, and they poured me half a shot. I took a sip and it wasn't as bad as the others I've had before back at home, so then I just poured the rest of it in my coca cola. No effects!! So now, I am going to start homework. I have two 200 word essays that are due on Monday. In addition, I have to memorize the entire dialogue from lesson one for the lime green book class...i still don't know what that class is called, but it encompasses all classes.
Woohoo! Great Wall MuTianYu on Wednesday with my class at 8am!!!
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