Things are crazy as ever, as we are all scrambling to write our papers and study for finals. It's been a pretty hard semester academically, but I made it. I'm just thinking about how in just two days I'll be sitting on my couch in America while the rest of my classmates scatter across the world back home to their families. It's weird to think that our home base will always be China.
MeiChen doesn't leave until the 24th. She didn't even know that was Christmas Eve (so cute). I have been teaching her Christmas Songs for the last month and I finally got her to sing White Christmas. Thursday, after our last final, I am showing her Annabelle's Wish! She seemed very confused by the whole idea of the movie, but she agreed to watch it. The Christmas spirit is a little lacking here (unsurprisingly) and I am afraid I will have reverse culture shock when I come back to America to find Christmas lights and music playing everywhere. As much as I love China, you just can't get that anywhere else but home.
I'll be in America for about a month before I return to school. Next semester is going to be pretty busy. I am taking two math courses, GPS and Chinese Intermediate I. I will also be traveling to Inner Mongolia with MeiChen for Spring Festival with her family. She is so excited to show me off to her Senior High School friends. She warned me that I will likely be one of the only foreigners that a lot of the people in her town have ever met, and that I should be prepared to take a lot of pictures. She has also made a rule that I can only speak Chinese while I am there. I am up for the challenge!
In May I will be running the Great Wall Marathon in Beijing. Naturally I am dragging MeiChen along so that I don't end up lost in the middle of China, but she is excited for the trip and to meet me at the finish line.
I hope everyone has a wonderful holiday break. I will not be posting on the blog during the winter break, but expect a post some time in January.
Love from Shanghai,
Maddie
MeiChen doesn't leave until the 24th. She didn't even know that was Christmas Eve (so cute). I have been teaching her Christmas Songs for the last month and I finally got her to sing White Christmas. Thursday, after our last final, I am showing her Annabelle's Wish! She seemed very confused by the whole idea of the movie, but she agreed to watch it. The Christmas spirit is a little lacking here (unsurprisingly) and I am afraid I will have reverse culture shock when I come back to America to find Christmas lights and music playing everywhere. As much as I love China, you just can't get that anywhere else but home.
I'll be in America for about a month before I return to school. Next semester is going to be pretty busy. I am taking two math courses, GPS and Chinese Intermediate I. I will also be traveling to Inner Mongolia with MeiChen for Spring Festival with her family. She is so excited to show me off to her Senior High School friends. She warned me that I will likely be one of the only foreigners that a lot of the people in her town have ever met, and that I should be prepared to take a lot of pictures. She has also made a rule that I can only speak Chinese while I am there. I am up for the challenge!
In May I will be running the Great Wall Marathon in Beijing. Naturally I am dragging MeiChen along so that I don't end up lost in the middle of China, but she is excited for the trip and to meet me at the finish line.
I hope everyone has a wonderful holiday break. I will not be posting on the blog during the winter break, but expect a post some time in January.
Love from Shanghai,
Maddie
