two weeks down!

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i am not sure if you guys can see the comments i reply back to you, so please let me know if you can. i haven't been able to write much, because of the limited access..and having NO internet on the weekends! This weekend, we met our friends sibilings. They were extremely nice! We just hung around the street called 1912, I was very tired and went home earlier each night this weekend. I haven't been sleeping well I am not sure why. Maybe its my excessive amount of Big Macs I have been eating. (I gave up McDonalds for the rest of the trip. & American food. Its way to expensive, I found street food that I enjoy. I am absoluetly shocked i found something i enjoyed! ] The next day, everyone laid low. We had a not so good experience with a western restuarant, they got our order wrong & said it was our fault and double charged us, not a good day!
Our friends from Canada were leaving monday so they treated us to dinner & KTV ]. We ate dinner at a Japanese steakhouse, much like house of Kobe! except you sit on the floor it was very good! Afterwards, I made sure to treat myself to a hot fudge sundae at DQ! KTV was a lot of fun! There was a lot of American music, I went home earlier because I was so exhausted. To thank them, we got them each a copy of the group photo with a note book that contains all of our contact information! The nextday (sunday) was a girl from my school from home birthday! so i spent my whole day getting stuff together. My job: to find a cake & have everyone sign a table sized card for her with out her knowing! haha it was a very difficult task! but i managed! we surprised her by going to a famous street in nanjing called hunan lu & let her pick the restaurant. She picked this very good Korean food restaurant, i really enjoyed it .. AND THE CAKE TOO! :D Afterwards, we walked around Hunan Lu, there was a couple entertainment things going on in the center of it. They asked me and some of my friends to come on stage and play a game! Each person had to role this HUGE life sized dice and get a six to win. guess who was the only one to role a six?! ME!! and yes it is definately on video! i won a 12 pack of tea!! maybe ill bring some home to show you all. afterwards, we all went back & i watched beauty and the beast! haha
Today we are going to get dessert with some people that our professor from home introduced us too! yumm, i love dessert! we have no plans so far for this week, because we have done so much already! the days are already winding down it seems, really we only have one full weekend left together which is this upcoming weekend because everyone leaves and/or is packing the weekend after that! We have discussed going to the underground shopping mall for tomorrow, but it is not final.. everyone still needs to get little trinkets for there family! i would definately move here if i could. however, theres only one thing that's holding me back. NO FREE REFILLS. hahaha

i will try to write sooner! and i am going to e-mail my mom some pictures if i can!

ps. the top two activities in china that we do the most: baby hunting & dog hunting the dogs are INCREDIBLY TINY HERE! and it is so much fun!

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