what's with all this homework business?

homework day. went for lunch with my little chinese friend olivia. she's from guanzhou and is doing her master's in geology. she's using me for my english skills... i'm using her for - nothing yet, but i'll think of something! the cafeteria ladies are getting really friendly. the cashier likes to follow me around and try to speak english and the beverage lady tries to teach me how to say orange juice every day. i stand there, repeat after her and promptly forget it. every day. good to have a routine.
watched the grey's anatomy premiere on youtube. man, the internet is just fantastic. huge time waster. huge.
went to a mongolian movie last night - cave of the yellow dog. and i must say that although it's about a dog, i highly recommend it. i only actually saw the second half cause lotte (german industrial psych student) and i got talking over dinner and accidentally missed the first half. oops. went with another german girl and a girl from taiwan. we all take classes together but i hadn't really seen them socially. kind of nice to expand the old address book a little more!
turns out that dennis and i totally got ditched yesterday. the people who invited us into a group on the first day of class have since formed another group with no foreigners in it... how sad is that? i'm actually in a group with the same people in my leadership class (which is a whole gongshow of a class..... alasdair, i wish you were here to witness it! your head would explode.) and when we were planning the group project, they suggested googling the topic and just re-wording whatever we find..... ah! migraine! intellectual property be damned! i really don't think i can do it.... my group is not gonna be very happy with me when they find out that i actually want us to LEARN about the topic.
dennis and i are off to shanghai on the 5th. can't wait! it's the centre of the world over here, so it should be really interesting! and of course, i hear the shopping isn't bad... mia just showed me some of her spoils from the big market up there. i'm actually quite proud of the restraint that i've shown so far. always good to have a friend who out-shops you. good for the conscience.
back to the books. gotta write a creative paper on cross-cultural communication and google my group project. sigh.