First night (on the town)

Well after a bit of entertainment from Prof Bill Hennessey with his Chinese speaking (to the Chinese students in the class) and neverminds and long talk of TRIPS, WTO, and WIPO we were in for a bigger treat with Prof Bing Wang. He is a prof from Tsinghua University which is the host institution for our class. Seems that this may be a long class since he reads off his ppt slides for an hour at a time. Good English lesson for him i suppose. So our class schedule is basically 3 classes a day from 9-1 then off the rest of the day. This is perfect for me seeing as how it is very close to how i schedule my classes back in tha ATL.

During the class breaks made some friends and since i wasn't currently checked in anywhere, had to leave the Xi Jiao bc it cost an arm and a leg compared to Thailand and how much money i have left to spend. It was 336 a night and Mike (my new friend who is a Georgia state student who i hadn't met) told me about the place he was staying that his Indonesian friend hooked him up with. Called the He Jia this place was a little more my scene with absolutely no English, unless you got lucky in the lobby and there was a translator about, dirty carpets, and half the price. Of course it ended up being booked for the night so Mike offered for me to stay with him since he had a double. Was quite a room, essentially the same as the other bar a safe, mini fridge, and stand in shower. Threw my stuff down and hung out for a bit.

Headed out for dinner a bit later and since the US was playing that night (1st Czech loss damn it (the games are on at 9, 12, and 3am here)) planned to watch that somewhere. Mike had been in town about 5 days and his Indo pals had shown him some spots so we hit one up later to be famously dubbed "Mom's" by yours truly. Went in and since this place is famous for its dumplings, according to Mike, that's what we had along with some fried rice or something. Got 2 plates of dumplings thinking we were big boys but not a chance at finishing them with the beer too. During dinner at the table next to us a Japanese girl, 2 Peruvian girls, and a French lad showed up and we started talking to them. They were headed to watch the games too since Japan was playing first and invited us to go along since we didn't know too much about the city. Headed out to the also later famously "Man on se moon" with them for an interesting night. Had multiple beers and tequila shots after betting Haruna that Japan would lose. Got late and we were the only ones left but we were cheering hard for good ol America. Unluckily for us everyone was cheering against us and since they didn't look Czech i couldn't really figure out exactly why. Well maybe i do know why but we cheered loud and were quite obnoxious anyway. At the end of that barn burner we decided that since it was only about 2 am we might as well go sing karaoke till 5am which we proceeded to do. Rocked out to favorites like "living on a prayer", the "Nelly, i love you" song, "Pour some sugar on me", and many other favs from britney, journey, etc as well as some Japanese standards performed by Haruna.

When we left it was light out and we realized that this was to be only the 2nd day of class. Got back to the room Haruna showered and we all fell asleep immediately. Woke up a couple hours later for the delicious breakfast that is provided consisting of no western food and all pickled vegetables, rice and eggs, a couple breads: one tortilla like and one cornbread like, and 3 types of soup: hot soy milk, one that's like grits, and one rice soup. Not bad today but just you wait. Wow, should be an interesting trip.