As of today I've been in Beijing for 1 month. It's been a pretty quick month actually. There has been a huge mess with my housing that took the first 3 weeks to sort out and it was so stressful but other then that my time in Beijing has been amazing. I am having so much fun and have a great group of friends, even if they do spend half the time making fun of me for not being part of the Common Wealth. That's what I get for hanging out with a bunch of Canadians and a guy from England. XD And every os often a few Australians as well.
Due to one of the Canadian guys somehow knowing EVERYONE! I have met a Chinese girl named Siwen who has been hanging out with us pretty much every day during our week long break. She helped me sort a few things out and the other day while talking about what I wanted to do with my Chinese she offered to help me. She suggested translation, which is what I was thinking of doing, and told me if I figured out an area that I wanted to go into she would find me a book that would teach me the characters and vocab that I would need to learn! So that is pretty amazing.
I have settled in really well actually. The room situation has really been the only bad part of this month. The internet was also giving me problems which is why there haven't been any updates but I should have that sorted out now as well so hopefully I can get another update in before the next month is over.
I need to do a whole post about some things that people really need to know before coming to China because there were quite a few steps to the process that caught me off guard. That should be posted sometime today unless I get totally side tracked.
I'll try to post some pictures as well!
