CIEE hosted a river cruise for us on Friday night. My host mama was also invited, as was my tutor Ding Xiong-fei (丁雄飞), and I think they both really enjoyed it.
Me and one of my Chinese instructors, Teacher Xie (谢老师)
Me and Aunt Pan
This is my tutor Ding Xiong-fei. He's an exceptional writer, and even though he's only a sophomore at ECNU, he's already garnered a lot of attention and respect from the graduate level faculty, who in effect decide who will or won't be China's next great literary masters. He's sent me some of his writings, so I've posted an excerpt here for those of you who can read Chinese. This is from an essay titled 最爱女人.
女人有两样东西是要命的，一是眸子，二则为声音。没有男人能够抵抗来自眼角眉梢的诱惑，即使聪明的男人知道那很坏很幻，尽管他口口声声说那是点缀，他还是没有丝毫迟疑地被勾引。而同从脸色晴朗的想入非非有本质不同，声音应该是女人生命力的意象，一旦女人的声音唤起了男人属于原始性的东西，那么女人的声音就被男人彻底承受了，将男人最实在地屈服了。
Anyway, after the boat ride, I was pretty tired, so I went back home and started my history paper (1,500 words, due tomorrow, I still have 1,300 to go).
Saturday, I went costume shopping. After narrowing down the choices to Roman god or Robin Hood, I decided that "Steal from the rich and give to the needy" is a lot better catchphrase than something in Latin, so I ended up going as Robin Hood.
Our group had some pretty interesting costumes. From left: nurse, ninja, Lady Gaga, cavewoman, devil, cowgirl, Robin Hood (me), Wolverine, something with antennae and wings, a Roman goddess, and the guy on the floor is Tinkerbell.
Fun night.
Anyway, now it's back to work on this history paper.
2 comments:
glad to see you survived halloween in shanghai. daddy says he is glad you went robin hood haha. keep in touch. love you
I am glad Aunt Pan got to go on the cruise with you. She looks really nice.
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