Pictures Part 2...Tomorrow??

Hello everyone!

After my 2nd day of class I am wiped! And, unfortunately, that means no pictures tonight because for whatever reason it is taking forever to upload each one, and I can't stay up that late. Wednesdays are going to be my busiest days, as I have 6 hours of class at Minzu and 3 hours of class at BeiDa - that's right, that's 9 hours of class :) Don't worry, the rest of the week the most I'll have is 5 hours of class. The others are all 4 hours. If you just did the math, no, you don't need to check it. 26 hours of class time per week! This week I'm going to see how much work that's actually going to be, and then next week I'll make a decision about dropping one of the classes at BeiDa. See, these 26 hours of class all add up to 15 credits in the U.S. If I drop one class, I gain 3 hours plus the time it would take to do the work for that class, and I can still remain a full time student at 12 credits. But like I said, no decision now, that'll be for next week when BeiDa's classes start.

In other related news, BeiDa is providing us a language tutor for half an hour each day - and oh my goodness, it is extremely helpful! Our tutor is wonderful and gives us a lot of help on whatever it is we're working on. She's able to expound on our lesson, to put it in context, and she helps us to apply what we've learned by making us create our own variations. For example, today I was learning some sentence structures, such as "Not only____, but also____", and she came up with some useful example sentences in English that then I put into Chinese (verbally).

Well, it's time for me to follow my roommate's examples and go to sleep. Goodnight!