While trying to look the mei in mei wan ti I came across an expression in my computer’s dictionary which means strong and beautiful. I noted it down as I often do. I write down a lot of Chinese and Japanese but that doesn’t mean I learn it…

Tonight I went to some sort of festival at the Tsinghua auditorium. Originally I thought it was a school wide festival, but in hindsight that seems blatantly wrong, I now believe it was a School of Economics and Management wide festival. It might have even been only the senior class but I’m not sure. It never was explained to me too well. Of course it was all in Chinese, so the fact that I got anything at all out of it was testament to my powers of empathy…