Love in the cracks.

Katrina's been going on about finding her CC, and now I feel bad coz it's been 2 weeks already, and I haven't found mine yet! Sigh. There's just so many people we see and meet every day, it's pretty hard to recall their faces back into memory. I can't even remember Katzu's CC's face, which is sad. LOL. ;)

Today was a good day. It didn't start out so well though. I woke up to an urgent nudging, which I later discovered was Katzu's way of waking me up. I looked at my cell phone, and gasp! It was 6:50am already! I totally rushed through taking a bath and eating yogurt for breakfast, all the while thinking, "Oh no, whatta way to start the day." The sky was dark and grey, adding to the gloom and doom of my waking up late possibly setting the tone for the rest of the day--everyone knows I hate being late. I'd rather be absent than late, which was usually the case back in uni. Anyway, we left the dorm room at around 7:40am, which is normal, and amazingly, when we got to class by 7:50am, only a few people were in the building. I was like, "Oh, this is good."

I got to talk more with my American classmate Jake. It's seriously amazing how everyone here seems so out of place in China, but then to know how much they wanna learn Chinese, and even more, how much they love Beijing itself is awesome. Had fun with the class. My teacher is really nice, and she teaches pretty well too, so everyone just loves her. She made some of the class get up and introduce themselves in Chinese, and then gave everyone else a chance to throw whatever we wanna know about the person standing in front. I think it serves a double purpose, giving us a chance to get to know each other, and at the same time making us learn to speak and listen to Chinese conversations. It was pretty cool. Today's victims were Jake (American), Damien (French), Maxime (Swedish), and Sam (British), all guys, by the way. It was loads of fun. Boys will be boys. Oh, and what was shocking for me to know was that a few in my class are just 18 years old. If you see them, you would have never guessed. Some of them I thought to be at least 25 years old. But they're all great. I love my class. I'm still trying to match the Chinese names with their English ones though, which is harder than it seems.

Some friends from Manila invited a bunch of us Chinese-Filipinos to have lunch together, plus videoke, but we already made plans with some friends, so yeah. It's good though, to have so much friends everywhere and anywhere.

Katz and I had lunch with her Colombian classmate Camila and my Colombian classmate Maria, who are also childhood friends. We also had along two other of my classmates, Allie (British) and Heiko (German). They're awesome to be with. Ate at the Conference Centre, and had a whole lot of delicious Chinese food. Afterwards, we went back to the dorm for a bit, but met up with the girls (Camila, Maria, and Allie) at Wudaokou (五道口) Station to ride taxis to Carrefour (家乐福) at Zhongguancun (中关村), not too far from the school. Shopped a bit, and got to find where the malls are, oh joy!

Supposedly, Katz and I were going to Camila and Maria's place with Allie for the night, to hang out, then head on to one of my classmate's birthday thing. But since we have a trip to Beihai Park planned early tomorrow morning, we begged off for now. Next time.

Exhausted, we stayed in tonight. Armed with a movie, popcorn, and noodles, we had a quiet night. I never thought I'd say this, but I have grown to love seeing the dorm after a tiring day. For now, it needs to be my home sweet home.