saturday classes really cramp my style

so, no fun for me this weekend. i'm all about class. cross-cultural management on a sunny saturday afternoon... almost as good as the beach.
went to shenzhen yesterday and spent only a modest amount of money. i'm really proud, cause the only things i bought were things that i had planned to buy before even arriving! yay me! the air up there is so bad that after six hours of shopping in the smoky, chemical atmosphere of the mall i got a wicked headache and just wanted to go home. the border people were great yesterday. we are all running out of room in our passports and decided to ask the immigration people to stamp our passports in specific spots, just to use pages efficiently. i figured they'd tell us off, but they were so friendly and had no problem with it!
had to pay rent this week, which was an interesting experience. i walked up to the bank teller, hoping that i could give them my bank card or credit card to pay, but nonono. that was not going to work. i had to go the atm, withdraw the money myself, THEN return to the teller to pay the bill. but the atm wouldn't allow me to withdraw enough money...so much drama. thankfully, the bank teller WOULD take foreign currency. it was so idiotic.
it's kids of strange being an exchange student here because it's so hard to meet locals. i find that a lot of the foreign students have a tough time going with the flow and really get upset about little things. i'm have a little internal dilemma because i want to enjoy my time here and find it fairly easy to adjust to the way things work here, but i also want to make sure everyone is ok. i'm such a mom. but i get so irritated when people can't figure out simple things, or complain about little things. (and i do see the irony in writing this right after my banking story!)
argh. enough venting. time to go to class. dennis and i have to figure out if we have a group for this class. we got invited into a group in the first lecture, but last week we got the feeling that our group might have ditched us.... who knows...