Day 22: January 25, 2013

     Today didn’t seem like a Friday.  Culture class was actually pretty fun listening to everyone’s presentations on what they learned from the Chinese student interviews. It was kind of humorous though because everyone kind of had different information or takes on what the students said. Chinese class was pretty fun when we talked about our families to the class and then played a game. One by one we got called up to the front and Catriona showed us a picture and then everyone could ask questions to try and figure out what is was. There were pretty good ones like Yao Ming, Jackie Chan, Obama, and the 7 dwarves. When I went up there they had all been people so far so no one could figure it out until finally someone asked if you could drink it and then if it was at Starbucks. When I answered yes to both of those questions, it was pretty obvious that is was coffee, or kafei, in Chinese. 

    After class all of the students in the program met to take a group picture so we can put it in frames and give them to our teachers when we leave. There was a guy taking pictures of us on his phone and then we just asked him to take it for us, and it actually turned out pretty well. After that took a lot longer than it should, I did some catching up on emails and made sure everything was ready to go for Harbin. Shout out to Laura for her lovely emails that keep me feeling in the loop of US happenings. 

     I then decided to see how many layers of clothing I could put on and still bend my limbs. I ended up packing 7 or 8 layers on top and 4 on the bottom in addition to tons of socks, gloves, earmuffs, and a hat. Hope that’s enough! Bryan, John, and I tried to get some homework done but it wasn’t really going so well and we realized it was 8:30 and we were starving. I took them back to Metro City Mall to eat in that giant food court again. It has yet to disappoint. We got this sizzling plate with steak, noodles, rice, and an egg. For what must have been a pretty poor quality steak for a total of about $5, it was amazing. After we finished eating we headed back to the room so Bryan and John could pack and then hit the sack around 11:30 to rest up for the crazy cold weekend ahead!