Greetings from Bei da 北大!!

华语cool, 北京colddddd! brrrr... but not so for him??

well, they call this a warm winter

so many photos, so many small stories, so many thoughts - where do i start?



God is good, all the time! most thankful for our nice less-ex hostel after our 大搬家 - amazing how the luggage already grew after just 4 days here! the first night we came here, the place was empty & pretty 冷清, and we got some hostile receptionists and i got a mega hostile room mate and a misunderstanding with her... but everything only got better from ther =)

man can survive without internet

but it has never felt so good to see a "successful connection" webpage! After one week of running to and fro, up and down to get the internet up. But generally it has been much better than expected... of course some things we went one big round circle to get it going... others are good and straightforward. patience!! 要 沉得住气 - that is what one prof here told the class when he talked OT!

we are 冒牌 北大生! so many "horror stories" about how each chinese student here is the scholar from their province etc... they really have it tough. even after coming here, they take 25 credits, each module about 2-4 modules, which comes up to 8-10 courses a semester! and here we are, not fantastic students, here to take 8 credits (about 3 subjects) - oops.... our main modules are Living in China and Travelling China. so happy to have made friends with some chinese students, and contacts passed on to us we have yet to meet...
北大的 一塔湖途 (understand why?) ; this is 未名湖...

so many wrapped up toddlers bumbling around!!

lots of photos for the ilovechildren.org website :P

诗情画意 的 北京

too many photos to load!! the typical exchange student's blog... :P