All Work, No Play.

It's been a long, tiring day. Woke up this morning pretty late, but got some quick breakfast with Mangpo. Came back to the dorm to learn some Chinese. Really trying to get better; some guy trying to sell me goods yesterday asked me where I was from, and I told him I was a local boy, and he said that was impossible since my Chinese was so bad. Ouch. Pretty discouraging for me, but I'm determined to improve and prove them all wrong!

We sent Liu Laoshi a preliminary schedule of what we will be teaching to our students. Spent the morning doing the planning, and I will be teaching some compression lectures taken from 6.02. Dang, thought I was done with that stuff a long time ago, and now I have to go back to those dark days -_- It's fine; at least I know I won't be quizzed on it ;)

I'm really excited about the culture lectures. We decided we'd all give a talk about the place we were born and raised, and who better to represent Hawaii than the Flyin Hawaiian! Can't wait to spread the Aloha Spirit to all of China!!!! Shaka braddah! \\_//

We're having so many language technical difficulties. Trying to install some software onto the computers this afternoon, but turns out everything is in Chinese, so we're literally trying to decode everything while reading the instructions in Chinese and translating them to English. Not really getting much done this way. But I'm so tired and fatigue to even complain. Toilet got clogged this morning, and had to ask the housekeeping people to come and fix it. I got a glimpse of the fixing process and literally that was the worst sh*t I've ever seen in my life. I will definitely appreciate American bathrooms once I'm back. I would have used the bathrooms at the schools, but as soon as I saw those squats with no toilet paper, they had me running all the way back to my dorm to do my business ( luckily our room has American style toilet, but still, not the greatest thing in the world. )

Needless to say, definitely wasn't the best day for me. Which is okay. It's part of the training, but I'm starting to wonder whether I had to come all the way to China to do this spiritual journey. Then again, I wouldn't be realizing all these things if I didn't come here, and probably would take everything granted.

So tired right now. Glad Louis is my roommate and buddy now. He always makes me laugh even when the things he says ain't meant to be funny. Good night World!