Waking up this morning was a struggle after such an exhausting weekend. After making it through thermo, Catriona and I both agreed on a naptime and slept until we headed to the dining courts for lunch.
After lunch, Joe and Catriona went and got more details on this trip sponsored by SJTU to Yellow Mountain and signed up. Turns out it is a great deal and is only about $30 for an all-inclusive trip except for food. It costs just about that much to just get bus tickets there normally not to mention a place to stay and fees to get into the mountain and such. The 8 of us going to Beijing decided it would be another great trip to do together, but then football put some complications in the plans. The guys playing football are only going to be here for 2 or maybe 3 games and their second game happens to be on the same weekend as the trip. Not to mention if they win the game, they get to play another, which probably wouldn’t happen if all of them weren’t there.
This ended up changing our plans and only John, Jess, and I decided to go with the school trip. We went to the building and got our reservations all squared away even though we are still very sketchy on the details. We figured even if it isn’t a good trip, it was only $30 and we could go back again with the other guys if worse came to worse.
With that taken care of, I came back and did some research for our Xi’an trip and decided that this coming weekend would be the best and tried to figure out who all wanted to go. It worked out that Ron, Bryan, Jess and I all wanted to go and we decided to book flights later that night. After that I got some materials homework taken care of and took a break to grab dinner.
After dinner I wasn’t really feeling homework so I went through all of the pictures from Beijing and put them on Facebook. It took forever to upload, not to mention the hours it took to reorder all of them, put captions, and tag people. Relieved when that was done, I went to check another thing off my list and book my flight to Xi’an. I was under the impression that Ron had also booked his but apparently he hadn’t and for a second I thought I may have gotten the last seat since it didn’t give me an option to choose like it normally does. Luckily there were still seats left, but unfortunately the prices went up by about $30 after Jess and I booked our flights, so Ron and Bryan got kind of screwed over. After just being relieved we all got flights, I booked us a 4 person room at a party hostel that another group recommended for only $8 a night. After enough stalling on my homework, I finished my materials and got to bed a little later than I was hoping.
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