First day of class

Today was my first Chinese class, woohoo! I was sort of hoping I would meet cool people there, but was a bit disappointed. My class has three other people in it, all of who are probably in their 40s/50s. Not saying there is anything wrong with that, but I don't see myself becoming buddy buddy with anyone.

My teacher is pretty cool, she is closer to my age (or so she looks, Chinese can be decieving). I learned some really valuable phrases today, like how to say "Your mother eats chicken." "Tade mama chi ji." Don't try to pronounce it, their sounds are so different. The hardest part I think will be figuring out how to pronounce the vowel combinations like ae, ie, ou, uo, iu and so on . . . I have the "ou" and "uo" down, but that's about it.

Last night I was turning the lights off and we blew a fuse. So Alex and I went to the fusebox and were flicking the switches but it wasn't doing anything. We were without any lights for a full day until maintenance finally came by and flicked another switch in another fusebox that solved the problem. Oops. We didn't realize there was another fusebox for our lights, it's too bad we couldn't just communicate with them over the phone and get it done earlier.

Other than that, I am working on reuploading all of the images to the broken albums, argh. I have no clue what happened. There is nothing wrong that I can see in any of the code or image files, so I am just starting over for those three albums.

That's all for today, things have been a bit slow. I have decided that I am going to do a little project for myself on mops. For some reason the variety of mops and where they have been placed in the environment fascinates me. Everytime I see a mop and I don't have my camera I get annoyed. So from now on, the camera comes with me everywhere a mop could possibly be. Be prepared for the mop photo album.