Almost done!!!!

Only two more weeks left! By this time I think I'm basically ready to go home, I miss my parents, my friends (at Yale and NY) and I miss food at home. While we're on the subject of food, I just went to Pizza Hut with a bunch of friends and now I think that I've gotten so used to the food here that I can't eat fatty American food anymore, the roof of my mouth feels swollen, something Chinese people would say is 热气太多了　also know as "too much hot air". I'm going to drink some Chrysanthemum tea since that's suppose to be "cold air"and reduces hot air (all stuff my aunt told me).

So back to this week. Well, its been crazy hot for the last two days because of the humidity, 78% humidity, can you believe it? Usually when humidity is over 50% that means rain but I guess not in China. Therefore a good idea is to stay indoors during this humidity, but of course I don't stay in. Instead I head to Forbidden Palace, which is mostly outdoors and takes hours to get through. Was not a good idea. But at least now I've knocked it off of my bucket list of things to do in Beijing. The Forbidden Palace was nice, but eventually it all started to look the same and there was still way too many people there in the disgusting heat.

Aside from going to Forbidden Palace, I did get to see a movie this week called Aftershock or 唐山大地震, with some classmates and teachers. And it redefined the term tearjerker. I went in not expecting to cry at all, but ended up crying a total of 7 times throughout the movie. It would have been so embarrassing if the rest of the audience hadn't been crying. My teacher emerged with her face all puffy and red. During the first day it was playing in theaters, they handed out packets of tissues to each person! Though this movie definitely made me cry, I don't know if I can objectively say it was a great movie; there were many loopholes in the story line. But as the first IMAX movie in China and as such a tearjerker, it is definitely worth seeing! I can't wait till I get back to the States to see Inception and Toy Story 3, heard they were amazing also.
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