done with midterms and thus, FINALS!!!!!

In gay and joyous celebration, I give you...PICTURES!!!!!!

Me and Jessimuhcuh - when she stopped in Shanghai for a visit....YuYuan and night, a glorious time.

Classmates who eventually bought swords and mock battled - some other guy joined in and won ;)

woooooooooosh.......

Me and Little Confucius (小孔）

The haze is aesthetic until you realize it's smog and pollution....

The pagoda in Hangzhou -- it was nice, they hadn't redone the paint on the outside....

We got to take a boat ride to the Islands of Hangzhou!!!!

Well- wishes and locks.....

Sign in front of a snake pit. "Violet Toxicity Snake No Catchlt"

Open space that is usually filled in the morning or late night by Taichi-ers

The new phsyics building - which was built in only 3 months

If you look hard, sweepers still use straw brooms.....

3 cats taking an afternoon snooze in the sunlight

Hope you enjoyed!!!!

500.

Today marks a great day.

I have completely run out of the index cards I brought with me.

With 100 in a pack, cut into quarters, I have (for sure) studied 400 words. Now add that amount plus the extra 100 words (in the mini essays for each lesson), and that makes 500.

Yes, folks, I have been asked to remember 500 words (and, thus, probably 1200 characters) for my reading/writing midterm.

500 words. That's 1000 for the semester. Awesome, but crazy.


And that doesn't even include my listening, newspaper, and dialogue skits.......