Last day of class! Went to buy another Totoro cell phone holder for my brother at a store on the pedestrian walk/mall near the classroom. Ended up buying a crank-it-yourself music box that plays the theme from Laputa. They were nice enough to gift wrap my purchases too!
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| Still wrapped. Keeping it as a post-MCAT present for the self. Hehe. |
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| With the Totoro cell phone holder, which is no longer wrapped. |
Afternoon adventure = Duolun Rd. (多倫路). It was weird because this street was full of buildings in European architectural style, and everything was under construction. Cited as a touristy street, we saw no tourists, but Wakefield claimed it was probably going to be a major tourist spot in the next year, which is definitely plausible. It was a very cool place and very pretty! But it just felt so odd and out of place among all of the Chinese locals and all of the construction. I felt pretty out of place snapping pictures of it all. These are photos from various websites, but of things I definitely saw during my afternoon at Duolun Rd. All credit goes to the original photographers!!
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| Italian chef statue holding a sign that says "KOREA" in the middle of a street in China with a bunch of European-style buildings. CONFUSED. |
Booked it to the banquet for dinner. It was a sort of goodbye celebration and a thank-you to the professor and TA for a wonderful month. The professor also insisted that we adhere to the traditional banquet style practices and toast the professor and TA, so there was a good 20 minutes of awkward, hilarious jumbled Chinese toasts to our professor and TA, especially among the people who didn't speak any Chinese at all. Also, the food was super good. Best banquet-style meal we've had. Kudos to the professor's wife who organized it all!! (Again these are not my photos.)
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| Some of the guys trying to toast professor in Chinese. haha! |
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| EASC360 family <3 |
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