I woke up this morning prepared to stay in the student accomodation but two of my classmates, two korean girls, approached Becka and I about sharing their flat. It looks nice from the pictures and has a kitchen. We are booked in to see it tomorrow but have pretty much agreed to share it with them already. I know it doesn't really make sense seeing as we paid a month's accomodation only yesterday but a) this flat is a lot cheaper in the long run (£600 for everything for 6 months as opposed to £750) b) there's a kitchen (although an oven is not necessarily guaranteed in a Chinese flat...) and c) I'm young and can do nonsensical things if I want to.
And you never know, the student centre might give us a refund...
The two Korean girls seem fun. I think one is called Boram and the other Sara. I only really know them by their Chinese names that our teacher calls them so I should probably find out their real names. I've seen them out and about in LPG and I think we'll have a great time together. Plus we'll probably only speak in Chinese so that will be good practice. Although of course they speak English, albeit tentatively, having studied it at school. So annoying that everyone bloody speaks English.
I waited for a bus opposite the government's building today. Every now and then black cars would ooze in and out.
If you think that Christmas is commercialised in the West you should come here. Not one non-Christian Chinese will celebrate Christmas, or even take the day off work. And yet every mall has a fake Christmas tree outside and special offers inside. We've seamlessly moved from Halloween decorations to Thanksgiving and now to Christmas. Without a single secular Chinese person celebrating either!
Christmas is literally just a mechanism to sell more stuff.
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