Only contains three photos that I was able to snap @ the lunch we went to after class.
So after Advanced Finance class today a few of us went out to lunch at a place called the Kro's Nest, which has city-wide fame. And perhaps international fame from some of the foreign students that attend school here @ Peking U. Here is the establishment's website: http://www.thekrosnest.com/ . Read the history section of the website. Pretty funny. And as usual, if it weren't for New York or New Yorkers, perhaps this place wouldn't be in business.
About 12 of us (out of a class of 60) went out to lunch and Professor Wingender joined us. From what I can gather, and from what he shares with us, the below photo captures one of "Dr. John's" favorite pasttimes. I think this is in line with expectations of any jolly American from the Great Midwest.
There have not been any travels over the past few days. Quite frankly, going to class 7 days per week and having papers, homework, and presentations to prepare eats up a lot of time. I am considering a trip to the Summer Palace on Sunday afternoon as long as the weather is nice. It is supposed to be beautiful and hopefully my "shutterbug" skills are ample enough to take some really nice pics I will be able to share.
One interesting tidbit over the past few days is that on Tuesday and Wednesday consecutively I got into an argument with one of my Chinese instructors over pronunciation of words. I know that I was pronouncing certain sounds correctly, and she insisted that I was making the sound incorrectly. Now, I know anyone reading this is thinking "so this pompous American is going to tell a Chinese person who is teaching him the language that what he is doing is correct and what she is suggesting is incorrect?" Yes, that is in fact the case. I am right, and she is wrong in this isolated instance where she is telling me that I pronounce the sounds in the word "cai" incorrectly and I have an indeterminable difference in my pronunciation of "zai" and "cai". Oh dear teacher, please don't test my patience on this issue any further.
I have my only presentation for the semester for my Decision Making class on this upcoming Saturday, and once that is over I really don't have much more to do for that class. So that is exciting, considering that class is on Sat and Sun mornings... no issues going hungover now and again to that sucker from Saturday on out.
Saturday afternoon/evening my classmate Laura and her boyfriend are having a barbeque @ their home and she invited a few of us from class. Probably going to go to that and meet some new people and get to now some classmates a bit better. It should be fun.
I'll do my best to start using my camera as liberally as I was when I first got here. I'll get pictures of my Chinese language teachers, my classmates, and of course any sightseeing.
3 comments:
Great pic of jolly "Dr. John"!
I'd really love to think you know more about Chinese pronunciation than the teacher, but I'm having a hard time with it...However, I'm your mother, so I'll say okay, you do!!!!
The smart money says your teacher is right and you don't even know you're wrong because your ear isn't developed enough. Of course, I only know enough Chinese (Cantonese) to call you bad names, so I am certainly even less of an expert than you.
As someone who took 2 semesters of Chinese with john, I can say his pronounciation is almost perfect and writings is outstanding
Post a Comment