Today was our first day of classes. It went pretty well – they stayed at really basic stuff, reviewing “你好” , and “你好吗？” Our teachers are all very nice. They are all young women, one is married, the rest are single.
Tonight we had a welcome dinner with several VIPs from the university, and then a welcome party thrown for us by the English language club at Dalian Jiaotong University. It was very intimidating at first – we went into this big room where about twenty students were seated, and we sat at these big long tables in front. The officials and Jade spoke, then we all introduced ourselves and talked about how nice Dalian is. We talked to the Chinese students afterward. I thought that would be the hardest part, but they had a pretty good command of English (most had studied it for several years). A few girls almost pounced on me, but they were very nice and sweet. The one with the English name Lisa had very good English. So we chitchatted back and forth for a while mostly in English. It was nice.
I’ve been jogging with some of the boys in the morning, and I’m getting tired. Bedtime!
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