The Days are winding down

So now its Tuesday night. Im flying out for China on Saturday very early in the morning. So what else is there for me to do? Well not too much. Working is one thing on the list, as well as preparing for this 3 week journey out of the Continent. This will be the first time for me every being outside of North America, so this is going to be a great experience for me.

As for how this class is going so far? Well I did really well on the 2 quizes that I've written so far, but I'm quite positive that I did really poorly on this test that I just wrote. There was a listening part on the test where the teacher only played the audio once, and there were about 4-5 questions for each dialogue. On top of this the dialogue was talking really fast, and I can't pick up on it when it flies by at a normal conversational level. Then there were the re-writting sentences into proper grammar. We all know how my my grammar is in English, we don't even need to take a look at my grammar in Chinese. Next was the translating English words into Chinese. This is the only section that I think I did really well on. The last part of the test was translating English sentences into Chinese. Again with the grammar, and not only that, some words that I can read in Chinese, but cannot write; so again this section, not so good. Oh well I guess, there always my tests in Shanghai to do better on.

Gotta go now, kinda jonesin for some 饺子 right about now.

Some things coming together, some things coming apart?

Well, I have most of my plans for my China Trip planned out so far.

I only realized yesterday that I was supposed to get my own flight booked to go to China; turns out most of the student got that done a couple of weeks ago......

I got a flight booked, Im starting in Toronto, going to Vancouver, then its Shanghai from there. On my Toronto to Vancouver trip, I will be on a flight by myself; the rest of the way is going to be with the rest of the group in my class though.

I also realized yesterday that I was supposed to have everything paid off for my China trip by April 26th. Silly me, I still owe 600 dollars.

Well here is what my schedule looks like for the trip:
Depart on May 21st at 7:30am
Classes start on May 23rd at 9am. Classes run from Monday to Friday from 9-12 and then 3-5.
Classes end on June 10.
Return from China on June 11 at 9:30pm or so.

I'm also going to Scotland with my family at the end of August. Im leaving on August 18th and not coming back until the 31st. :S

As for things falling apart, well there are certain plans that are trying to be made over the summer, but things just never seem to work out in our favour. Its getting a little frusturating at this time, but I intend to make these problems work out. That will be the ZIN GUARANTEE!!!

Muah!