To Drink or Not to Drink..!

I shall be honest. I was slightly lazy to drop by to add an additional post in. And yes, I am aware it is only Day 2. But I figured I might as well since I still have the time. FYI, I chose the intensive course, which includes 6-hours of learning each day, after topping it off with supposed given homework and readings, I'm supposed to not have ANY time once classes start. Brilliant!

Day 2 was interesting too. Started the morning with a Placement Test at 8am. If you didn't know a word of Chinese, you'd be there for a total of 5-minutes. Fill in your name on the exam sheet and you're off (which also mean you'll definitely be put into Beginners). I spent about 30minutes on the paper given because of one particular section - a 100 word written passage. Mine was a mixture of Chinese characters, pin yin & English wordings, the teachers must be silently mocking.

Ji-Han (the neighbour) and I then met for lunch, and we decided to step foot off-campus for the first time. Feeling brave, we endured fast-paced bicycle riders, trying to cross a major road with no system (you can forget about jay-walking fines around here!) and figuring directions out. We visited U-Centre, the closest shopping mall to BLCU. I tried searching for a decent jacket, but the prices were slightly too high for my liking, ranging from 700yuan onwards, and it's not even a known brand.

At night, we ventured off-campus too, since I was sick of 'zhap fan' (already!) and met Richmond, my former high school senior, and his friends. We visited a Japanese restaurant, and it was amazing compared to rice and dishes again! They were from Tsinghua University, another option to consider for Mandarin Language learning :)

Today's been another truly exciting day! From spotting 136¥ Jose Cuervo Tequilas (OMG!) and trying to justify the it's-so-worth-it & figuring out if the alcohol is genuine (I should have taken a picture!), as well as purchasing a milk tea from reception. Looked like any other ordinary delicious milk tea bottle, except when I initially opted for a warm one, there was a layer of white sediments on top. The guy was really persistent in selling it to me, and as a silly newbie, I got scared, chose the cold bottle from the fridge as a more legit option and bought it. Eek!

It's been sitting on my table for the past hour. I don't know whether to drink it. Another reason? Bottle-cap date reads "2011/10/26". Is that the manufacturing or expiry date?! Gosh. Here are a few photos of Day 2! I combined them into one photo to make viewing easier, thank me please. HAHA.

Top Left : Pretty side of campus ; Top Right / Bottom Left : Off-Campus U-Center by D&N ;
Bottom Right : My Milk Tea, to drink or not to drink..

Stay tuned for more updates tomorrow! Love x