An uneventful week

This week has been very quiet. We only did three lessons in class instead of the usual four. Seeing that we were all a little stressed out canceled all events this week, so I have ample time to study and work on my essay.

I have also been contemplating how much Chinese I will take when I get back to Dartmouth. On one hand I want to truly master Chinese, and be able to have deep conversations. However, learning Chinese can be very stressful. I have to give up a large portion of every weekend learning new characters. I’m sure that I would learn another language such as French much easier.

Next week, we are going to see shanghai. I am extremely excited. I will get to try shanghai cuisine which is different than northern Chinese cuisine. Also I will get to hear the Shanghai dialect of Chinese, though most people there do speak Putonghua, the dialect spoken in Beijing. I will post again next week.