May 25: Last Days in Beijing

The past few days haven’t been so amazing. We’ve spent a lot of time in classes talking with students. It was a lot like other time I told you all about a week ago, but more boringer. I don’t know that some of those students really care about anything at all. They don’t pay attention to their teacher in class; they give me one word answers to my questions; reminds me a lot of some students in the States. I’m not saying that I’m any better than anyone else, or that my goals are any more noble than any others, or that I’m a better student than anyone else; I’m just making an observation. It’s completely fine for some people to memorize facts and puke ‘em back up for the test.

Went to a separate class that was not in English. I wanted to go to an International Economics class, but they cancelled it last minute. So I sat in on an accounting class. The girl I sat next to was neat to talk to. She let me borrow her electronic dictionary and I spent most of the class time looking up the words that I couldn’t understand. That was actually a pretty fun class. During the break, a few of the students in my immediate vicinity and I had a little chit chat. They get so tickled that I can speak Chinese as well as I do, which really isn’t all that well. But I try to put on a show, anyway.