IUP!!

中国的防火墙又坏了吗？好久我的博客是打不开的，但是现在看似一点儿问题都没有。好像这个blogspot是一直能打开的。我身经百战，我输给中国的网盾。现在才是到了，它让我打开才能打开。

你看到我最新的英文文章吗？上周五晚上我跟我的姐夫一起坐了火车到北京。他想去北京为了旅游。不过，我想去是为了陪他。那天我们去北京是我姐夫第一次在中国坐火车。恰好我跟他在一起因为那天的火车只有"无座” 票。如果他第一次在中国一个没座位坐过火车的话，那就不行。他很可能立即去到别的，比较好的国家旅游。不管怎样我决定了陪他到北京。我们两个人站立了十二个小时才到了北京。好在他带了一台折叠自行车，我们在火车上的时候，他的自行车就是我们的位置。

那么，我不瞒你们说，我陪了他去北京并不是因为我是一个好心肠的人，我也有我自己的议程。我跟他去北京是因为我有面试。陪我的姐夫到北京，顺便在北京作面试不是一举两得的事吗？你不要回答，当然是的。

到了北京之后，我们都很困，alex（我的姐夫）马上的和他"沙发冲浪运动“的网友联系了。他的网友英文叫elly，我在她那里住了两天。。。现在我不知道alex还是住在她那里。。。Elly不仅是一个非常好的主人，而且是十分热情。我很快把她当作朋友了。

虽然这次我在北京连一个名胜古迹的地方我都没去，但是比上次更有意思的。这只是因为我不是一个人旅游，而是跟朋友一起玩儿，一起聊天儿。我也认识了几个朋友，尤其最好的就是我的主人。他们都比我大一些。他们由于比我大，都能够帮助我了解一下对他们看来世上最大生活的问题。希望我能记住他们给我的一些建议。

我的面试呢？结果怎么样？我通过了，我差点儿没通过了，可是无论任何下个学期我会参加IUP在清华大学学汉语项目。我作面试的时候我有一点儿失望。这不是因为我没通过，是因为我对我自己的汉语水平失望。我期待下学期的剧烈学习气氛，不下苦功夫学好中文，怎么行？只要学习中文一直到头晕了才好：）

北京的污染~~~很深很深的吸入一口吧

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Back once more

Yes, my blog was once again shut down from me, but i'm back now for the moment and figured i should make another post.

My life here has not been so bad these days. I have given up all hope of gaining anything out of my classes, but that doesn't mean that i still can't learn Chinese here. I just figure i can relax for now, chill with my Korean classmates and prepare for my next semester.

~~~~~flashback....flashback.....flashback~~~~~~

My sister's boyfriend came to visit me here about a week ago, sometimes we don't get along, but this time....this time it was a BLAST. He chilled with me here a few days, the best moments where when he got himself drunk and a entertained a crew of Korean girls that came over to eat, and then we took a night train to Beijing. 12 Hours of standing on a train to Beijing later, we arrived tried as f*ck and still pondering where we would stay. Alex is a big fan of the couchsurfing system and we had already made a few contacts. We were at the time however, in disagreement over who to stay with...the "i go f*ckin' nuts on the weekends" dude, or a seemingly normal chinese girl.

Long story short, we made the right decision, we stayed with the chinese girl, and for my first couchsurfing experience it was great, and i got a new friend out of it. Our host, elly, was very chill and guided us in our wanderings and eatings through Beijing. Although i must say one of the highlights of this trip to Beijing was the bicycle trip Alex and i took around Beijing (check out my killer bike) and getting lost in the process. Yes, we messed up simple english directions which should hae led us the Houhai (后海). We never made it, luckily, we did make it back to elly's apartment.

Anyway the real reason i went to Beijing wasn't to escort Alex, he's a big boy and can find his own way. I went because i had an interview with the IUP Chinese language program at Qinghua U. This is arguable the best language program for teaching foreigners Chinese. In my sleep deprived state, i with my mediocre Chinese skills skidded through the interview and was accepted to study in the spring. The last words out of my interviewers' mouth went something like "我们现在的学生并没有你的汉语水平那么低，但是我觉得你可以来这儿上学" Now, for two days i thought that was insulting, but now i think it has made me uber motivated. I have now interpreted his words to mean that after 4 months of study at IUP, my chinese will improve to a level incomparable to the present (i hope/pray/dream). In fact, this is why i no longer care about my remaining weeks of study here, i will continue as usually, because i know come January 8th, i will be swamped with soo much chinese (just like the summer) that my head may very well implode...that makes me smile

As usually, i am not fixing any english grammar mistakes, please ignore them. Enjoy for now.


This man is way too happy about his hemorrhoids

i slipped off a jug

enough said. If you understand what this means, please cry with me.