Culture!!!

This week began our extracurricular classes. The classes are meant to teach us things about Chinese culture--I signed up for Chinese Cooking, Chinese Painting, and [Chinese] Taichi. The classes are taught by either graduate students here or by locals. Our painting teacher did not speak English, so learning how to paint in complete Chinese was spectacular, let me tell you. And THIS was the product:



I also want you to know that, fortunately, the Teletubbies can be found in different shapes and sizes all over the world, even China:

This is an enormous advertisement my friends and I passed while in search of an antique store yesterday. When we reached the antique store location according to the Lonely Planet book, we found that it had been raised in place of a giant hotel. Who's communist now?



OK I will make another post soon, I have to get back to studying. oh and by the way, please feel free to visit photobucket.com to see pictures posted from the students in the program. the login ID is "UVAshanghai2007" and the password is "lianglaoshi".

晚安 / wan'an (goodnight)