Finding out our Schedules

This morning we had to be at the Russian building at 9am to find out our schedules for the semester. Silly me for thinking that would be easy. Fact #1- If you think something is going to be easy in China, you're wrong! When Laura, Katie, Heather and I got to the Russian building, right at 9, like they asked, we saw a HUGE crowd around two big boards. Everybody (the chinese) were jumping up, and pushing each other to figure out their schedules. We on the other hand, were absolutely clueless as how this whole process worked. Eventually a Chinese student came over to us and gave us this sheet that we had 
to fill in with our classes,

My Schedule...

So we had to go up to the board, find out our class number on one side and then go to the other side to figure out when our classes were. If you had a 1-2 under Monday （一）, that meant you had class from 8-10:10. So complicated, why can't they just give you a printed out schedule? 


I was going to write my schedule out, but all you really need to know (so I can vent) is that I have 6 hours of Chinese on Thursdays, and then 4 hours all the other days except for Monday's when I lucked out with 2 hours, but then I have an Intercultural Business class from 5-8:30pm Monday nights. 


When we were finally done figuring out our schedules we went back to our rooms until we had to meet our tutors at 11:30.  Our tutors took us on a tour of campus. My tutor's American name is Anne; I have absolutely no idea what here Chinese name is. Each tutor has two CIEE students and I am partnered with a guy named Kyle, from California. Anne talked to us in Chinese the whole tour, she would tell us things and we would nod our heads and she would laugh. Neither one of us completely understood what she was saying, which she apparently thought was HILARIOUS. We, however, just felt stupid. We meet with our tutor 3 hours a week. She asked me where I wanted to meet her and I immediately thought Milliken. I guess a cafe will do.  


After our tours, Katie, Laura, Heather and I went to get lunch and then we walked about 10 minutes to Bally's to join the gym. Never though I would ever join a Bally's Fitness! This gym is the nicest gym I have ever seen. We plan on doing yoga, spinning and ab and back classes. Hopefully the cold weather won't stop us in the winter! Oh and the trainers at Bally's are the most bulky Chinese men I have ever seen; awkward is the only word to describe how they look and walk. 


We also went to Carrefour today to get a mini-fridge for the room. Getting the mini-fridge back to campus was quiet the experience. We had to wait for a taxi for 10 minutes and then he dropped us off outside the East gate and we had to walk to our dorm. 


We didn't get back till 6ish so we just got dinner and got ready for our classes. I am so nervous for tomorrow! I have 6 hours of Chinese classes and then the Acrobatic show at 5:45!