Another Weekly Update

Gonna start with the important stuff: food.

Hot pot, meet blog readers. 

Blog readers, meet hotpot. 

Hot pot, get into my mouth. 

This, my dear friends, is the hot pot I've been talking about. Deeeelicious. There's a chain hotpot restaurant right next to my gym, and every time I finish working out, I am tortured by the incredible smells of veggies and meats and all that jazz wafting out of Xiabu Xiabu (the restaurant). A few friends and I went on Monday and nom'ed it hardcore. Man, I wish I had some right now! 

The rest of the week went by pretty smoothly! It was a rough week in terms of the workload - we were warned ahead of time that week 5 of IUP would be the hardest one, due to the activities and requirements that would come in weeks 6, 7, and 8. I've gotten used to a comfortable pattern in terms of how to handle the work, which is really nice. I think my readings this week pretty much doubled in length, which wasn't too hard to handle since, ya know, I've got pretty much nothing else to do all day besides learn Chinese (and occasionally post pictures of food that I eat). 

This weekend, I will be going to Xi'an with my aunt and cousin! I'm super pumped because I've never traveled around China outside of Beijing and Tianjin! Brace yourselves, terra cotta warriors.