The Return of the Snow Day!

I mentioned last week that it was supposed to snow a bunch this weekend, but it never did. Apparently the big storm my 'chinese mom' told me didn't hit until last night. I woke up early this morning for some unknown reason. I still don't know what it is, but after I woke up and looked out the window. To my surprise everything was covered in a blanket of white. All of a suddden I forgot about everything I needed to do this morning and got ready for class and grabbed my camera. On my way to class I took a few photos, check out my snow day photos here.

After getting to school I chatted with a friend from Seattle. Both of us couldn't wait for the director of the program to come and tell everyone to go home because it was snowing. I guess we have been conditioned by Seattle.

At lunch time one of classmates was sharing a bunch of homemade cookies she made here in Beijing. She somehow has a friend in Beijing with an oven. When she told me this I was wondering where she was when I was thinking cooking turkey for Thanksgiving. Her cookies were excellent. One of my classmates even joked if she was married or not ... unfortunately for him I think she is.

There was also some bad news for the day, which I heard pretty early on. One of the administrative staff at IUP had their bike stolen. When I was studying in our library this morning she came and told me. I figured since I was leaving Beijing soon and lately I have only been riding my skateboard around that I would give her my bike. After a little bargaining with her I think she finally agreed to take my bike without giving me money. Who knows, she might try to bring it up with me tomorrow. At least I can be happy that when I leave Beijing my bike will be in good hands.

Right now I am just preparing to wrap up this week. I have a presentation on Friday that I am kind of wishy washy about. I still have time to prepare really well, so that I won't be reading when I presenting or I won't need to make things up on the spot, but then again everyone else has been doing that. It is hard to find motivation these days when all I can really focus on is getting things done for coming back to Seattle.

This week I made sort of spur of the moment decision to take a trip to Yunnan in southern China. First we are going to fly to Kunming. Afterwards we are probably going to take a bus to Lijiang. From there we are going to take a trip to see one of the deepest gorges in the world, Tiger Leaping Gorge. I plan to take too many photos for you guys to see. I can't wait to go!