Speaking of things other things I can't resist, my urge to get this holiday series over is quite strong. So strong, I want to finish it as quickly as possible. In the shortest possible fashion...
Actual Part 3; A Hooker
Okay, I'm going to do this in bullet points just because it's been so long and there's nothing I really want to say about it.- Near the bus-station we arrived at in Ya'an? Whole bunch of brothels/hookers. Yep. Lots. Not very discrete.
- It's a pretty boring place.
- From Ya'an, we took a bus to an 'ancient town'. That wasn't actually that 'ancient'. Large cranes = new. Touristy as hell and not very fun.
- Catching a mini-bus back from this 'ancient/modern' town, the guy reversed into another car. I probably could even have stopped it. I was literally looking back and commentating, 'Hm. Car behind us. He's going to reverse into it. *Crunch* Yep, we just hit it.'
- The next day, caught a bus back to Chengdu. Another friend went on to hike around a panda reserve that is apparently quite nice - certainly the pictures were nice - but I was sick of his company and desperate to get away.
It would have been too rude to pack up in front of the teacher in the middle of her class
Moving on, what else is new? Today I'm just feeling pretty bad. Really, really tired. Got up and went to my morning classes, ended up putting my head down for just about the entirety of the 2nd class (10.30-12) because I felt sick. Really should have just gone home, but felt like it would have been too rude to pack up in front of the teacher in the middle of her class. So I waited, then got back to my room, ate a little and went back to bed. I've spent the rest of the day dosing, and basically feeling crap. I'm not really sure why. Sleep has been a bit of a problem recently so it could easily be that, but that isn't exactly thrilling me because there isn't an obvious solution.
Both the roommate and I generally go to bed around 11-12 midnight. I wouldn't want to go to bed earlier, and even if I did, he would still be up. Classes obviously remain constant at 8.30am every day. I've been coming up with crazy schemes as to how I might be able to arrange some sort of system where I can learn/get classes in the afternoon. Not being a full-time student per-se and getting a decent tutor for an hour or two in the afternoon has been my main thought I guess, but I don't know if that would work. I mean, I suspect it would. 1 on 1 is better than the class situation of around 15-20 (depending on the class), and having 'class' in the afternoon would be just... super. I know there's people out there getting up at 5am or worse to go to work, but frankly, not my problem. I'll deal with 5am when and if it ever becomes my own problem. Presently, 8.30am is my problem and I'm thinking of ways to get around it.
Class is killing me
It's occurred to me that I probably haven't really had early morning study, proper study that is, since high school. Sure I occasionally had an early-ish tutorial in my first year of uni (9am or something [oh, and apparently Americans don't know what a 'uni' is. University is fine, but not uni. Just not in their vocabulary.]), but first year was a) ages ago, and b) I tried avoiding those tutorials as much as possible (also because they were boring). Anyway, this is getting less coherent so I'm going to conclude that class is killing me. Yep, killing me. Jabbing a knife in my chest and twisting.
Doing my usual vaguely nerdy shit, I've been helping out friends setting up their wireless routers. It's made more difficult in that the router language is in Chinese by default, and more annoyingly, the friend's computers that I've had to use have been in Polish and French. I didn't realise that French keyboards don't have the QWERTY layout. Really annoying.
I don't know who decided this is how a French keyboard should be laid out, but I already wish they hadn't been born.
Getting really annoying with my room-mate constantly downloading Top-Gear episodes. One of my biggest mistakes was showing him a useful website on how/where to get them easily, because now the internet is constantly in use. I had to abandon a Skype phone call with my Mum on her birthday because the connection was getting raped. I could have done something about it, I guess, *imagines throwing the MacBook out the window* but it probably would have created too much drama. Speaking of drama, I haven't yet told him I'm thinking about going to a different uni next semester.
Come to think of it, have I mentioned that here yet? In brief, I'm thinking of going to Beijing next semester. Maybe 80% I'll try get into it. Again, their classes are at 8.30 so that's actually my biggest consideration right now. If it's possible to be avoiding starting at that time, I'll do it. I'll be sooooooooooooo much happier, and I'm pretty sure feeling better in general. And you know what they say - A happy worker is a productive worker!
Or something like that...
Brief apologies for lack of pictures, but the link is up there if you're desperate. I'm out, peace.
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