Having relatively important classes on Monday, Friday, Tuesday, and every other Thursday is not doing wonders for my travel plans. I may try to restrict myself to local travel, even on these three-day weekends. The low United fare to Ho Chi Minh is tempting, but the return flight is once a day in the morning—too early to see anything in HCMC that day if I leave Monday, but too late to get me back in time for Tuesday morning class if I leave Tuesday. I guess the three-day weekends may need to stay within ferry range. Zhuhai, Guangzhou, Shenzhen/Shekou, Dongguan, hmmm.
I am officially done (until I panic and send more in November) with law school applications for now. One recommender’s letter is the only obstacle to my application’s getting tossed in front of the committees that will determine my destiny (next Fall, anyway). Some committees, fortunately, are impatient and already reviewing my application with the two letters currently in: cheers to them.
I have an informal presentation in a tutorial on Friday, and a larger one two weeks from tomorrow. A dictation exercise threatens in Mandarin next Tuesday. I guess it’s not exactly a mid-term crunch, but it may be as close as I’ll get here.
Mandarin was distressingly distressing on Tuesday—the teacher led off by asking me a question using a particle she hadn’t taught us. I never really recovered. We ended up getting her on a long tangent with words for different countries (how to express your nationality: I [to be] [country] person, so WÅ shì MÄ›iguó rén). I need to get a binder and organize all my floating workbook, textbook, and chicken scratch note-taking pages.
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