There's a walkout going on at some campuses, but I think it's starting at 3PM in the US. My law school and of course my undergrad (of course XD) is involved and I wonder how it's going to go! I warned Richard about it because it's taking place in the little park by the law school!
One of my classmates, at the end of Mandarin class, passed by me and said, "Adela, ni hen piao liang." (You are very pretty/beautiful.) I thought I misunderstood and he repeated it again, and I said, "omg thank you" THAT'S SO SWEET!!!!!
Another classmate of mine said she has only attended two lectures of our Chinese Legal Systems class... How do these people live with themselves, I'm too nerdy to do that :B
Reshab invited me to go to Beijing with him and one of the Frenchmen, but I didn't want to miss my last US-China Business Transactions class :B I'm thinking of going to Hangzhou Saturday anyway. Then I'll finally get all the zhous done!
The guy I met from Hangzhou... I messaged him saying that I'm thinking of going this weekend and if he has any tips. He suggested I go next weekend so he can be my guide because he's busy this weekend so he'd recommend for me to go next weekend. But I want to go this weekend. Why do people suggest for me to change my plans? XD I dunno, I feel like this has happened so often this semester, haha. What is the meaning behind this??
Caroline said I hardly know him though and she wouldn't suggest me going by myself to see him, which I think is true.
Today I went to the Wild Animal Park. It's basically a zoo, but huge. There is an actual zoo, but I haven't heard good things about it. So I went to this place instead and it was a lot of fun. I went on a safari bus and we fed lions, white tigers, giraffes, and bears. It was so much fun!
I liked how the sign in the bus said "Don't move around the bus," but none of us followed that, haha.
I also liked how many of the signs around the park said that if you stuck your hand out or go inside one of the enclosures or if you break any of the rules then "you need to suffer the consequences" or "you have to suffer the consequences yourself."
This really amuses me.
Next time I'm going over the weekend (maybe this Sunday) so I can have my pictures taken/interact with animals, like ALPACAS and giraffes and pandas and baby tigers. They had a baby panda there and she was cutie.
There were hardly any people though and most restaurants were closed and I think it's because it was a weekday and hardly anyone comes. So for sure I'll go over a weekend because even the "interaction" time period is extended by 3 hours. It was a really lovely area though and really, really spacious. It was also super Chinese with its bridges, gardens, etc.
It was kind of far from the center of the city and from the subway station there were only orange taxis and regular cars used as registered taxis. I didn't mind taking a regular-looking car during the day, but when it got dark and I was getting into a regular-looking van I was thinking, "Don't try this at home" and "I had a good life" XD The things I do here
It seems like this is the norm in that area though and they have set prices. But then again, next time I'll go when there are more people!
The trek there was better though than the one for the Shanghai Film Park that I went to earlier this week. I thought I was in a whole other city when I arrived, after taking a long subway ride and a bus XD It was really cool though and I got to see 1930s Shanghai in front of me, I learned tons more about the Shanghai film industry, and I even saw two films being shot there. One had soldiers running and shooting through some old war-torn streets. I even saw extras hanging around. It's amazing that it's basically many of the Shanghai streets and monuments recreated along with things like churches and Chinese temples. It also had a museum inside one of the buildings that went in-deph about Chinese films and the people behind them. It recreated sets and tools used too. The area has been used for a while for Chinese movies and that's pretty cool!
Tomorrow I'll be at NYU Shanghai for a while for a couple o' events, woohoo~~~
It's about a medium lol, so I watched some Long Island Medium to have a vague idea (I know, I know, it's a show -- I'm not that fooled, speaking as a longtime viewer of reality TV).
