We spent a lot of during the last week around the Joint Institute... mostly learning the Chinese language in class and learning more about Chinese culture. The students from PKU have been taking us around to a few of the restaurants on campus that we can walk each day, and I feel like I know my way around the campus fairly well now. On Thursday night, right as I was going to bed, we got a phone call saying we had to go to the police station the next morning to let them know we had moved into our apartment, b/c it was our last day we could register w/o being too late!
On Friday there was a lunch to celebrate a delegation from UM arriving in Beijing, and we went to that and had a chance to see our research advisors again. There were lots of people taking pictures and the food was very good. It was the first time I've had fried rice since I got to China! After that we had to go to the police station and write apologies b/c it turned out we were actually 2 weeks late registering (we only really had 24 hrs after we arrived to do that I guess). So then after that we went to dinner at a great Japanese restaurant! There was a ton of great food.. well I thought so anyway, but it was too bad b/c Brian can't eat a lot of the things b/c he is allergic and then Tiffany can't eat anything that has meat or fish in it so neither of them could eat many of the dishes that were served. The PKU students who are travelling to UM and our advisors from PKU were at the dinner.. and so were a bunch of the people from the UM delegation. A few people gave speeches at the dinner, and Brian gave a great speech. It was a lot of fun.
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