By Isabelle
Life is great, the spring is here, the sky is blue and shanghai is better than ever.
It´s been forever since I wrote here (Jess has done a better job) Since January I have been to Hong Kong where I went shopping, went to ocean park and also met up with my friend ping, macau where I met up with my friend David, Sanya with Jess and my parents, Beijing (twice), and Harbin where we went to the famous ice-festival.
At home school has started again and I am more than happy with my class and teachers. I speak much more and understand more. I have gotten a private tutor, quit one of my students so that I now only teach weekdays lunchtime at starbucks.
I got a translating job from Eng-Swe that was for a fitness video, and also did a voce-over recording for it after. Yesterday I went for great tappenyaki with Vicky and her friends and out to a club after. And tonight, besides hanging, I have cleaned the apartment and my room and watched a really bad film called Shanghai Baby. Tonight
I am leaving home 3:30 am to be in a commercial for a major airline company. I am going to "play" a stylist and Rowan a designer. Should be fun although tiring. Our internet isn’t working at the moment but the company are supposed to come and fix it tomorrow morning.
Oh, and I´m with house in leeds for next year, yay! (thanks to my fabulous friends who are managing everything in Leeds).
My big sis is coming to Shanghai in like a month and I very much look forward to that. But before then we have a big Leeds Uni-exam where we are expected to read and understand both simplified and traditional Chinese characters, and then mid-term exams for our Chinese classes at Jiao da.that´s what I wrote a couple of weeks ago but never got around to actually post on here.
after that we all pretty much locked ourself inside (starbucks most of the time though, haha) to revise for the leeds exam. I guess it went alright, but i always forget that I am worst at translating from chinese to english which always is what makes my mark much lower, and I forgot that this time too so did not remember many of the words used in the eng-chin. translation. oh well. Me, Jess, Mu and T went to a really really nice lounge after the exam and had some drinks, then ordered pizza, went to the apartment, then a quick visit to Studio. yesterday we went for Korean bbq (korean food is my new favourite food) which was amazing, then we went to windows for cheap drinks and then to Mint wher we stayed til 4 or so. Me vicky and her friend C who just moved back to Shanghai ended up calling the magic number to find out the location of the Cantonese style restaurant that is open 24/7 and had some great food there (that restaurant is pretty much fully seated around this time in the morning)...
we now have 1 week of because there´s a school trip to Xian.. which I am not going to because I need to study, and start some of the leeds essays and diary entries we´re supposed to have done by may.
oh and I think I will be going back home ´so that I am back in Sweden by 10th of August at least, in time for way out west!
hope everyone is well.
xx
