It is already a while ago that I posted something so here is again a little story.

This week we have exams so I didn't do that much because I had to study.When I came back from Beijing I was very tired so that week I didn't do that much. And last week Monday we had a test so I also had to study. The test went good because today I received my mark and I got an 9.3 so I'm pretty happy with that. The rest of the week was pretty quit.

On Thursday we normally have Chinese class but there was a dance here at school, free entrance and it where all Chinese students here from school even some out our classes. When Anouk and I found out the dance would be during our Chinese class we asked our teacher to get leave but it wasn't that easy. So we asked everyone of the class who wanted to go there. A lot people wanted to join us so with almost the whole class we send her an email and because almost everybody wanted to go she said we could go and we would not have class so that was nice.

The dance was very nice. Lots of different dances. Very traditional but also modern but all the dances are very sweet not really how we know it.

On Friday we wanted to go to Zhujiajiao a water city nearby Shanghai. We would go there by bus. Because I wanted to get to know more of my classmates and going with a group is most of the time nice so I had send an email to everyone of our Chinese class if they wanted to join us. Because the people who wanted to join us had class on Friday we went on Saturday.

So on Friday we went with 4 French people, who would join us to Zhujiajiao, to the tour bus centre to buy the tickets. On Saturday we took the bus at 8:30. We arrived around 10:00 and when there was some kind of parade so we first watched that but we still have no idea why it was there. After that was finished we walked around a little bit. Visited a few temples, museum'sand had Chinese lunch and Chinese candy (we also bought some).

At 16:15 our bus would pick us up to we went back to the bus stop after a great day with a lot of fun. The French people also stay at the same dormitory so it is nice to have more contact with them now.

On Sunday there was F1 in Shanghai and I really wanted to go there but there were no tickets available anymore so that really sucked (sorry for the language).

Today we had our first exam of the week and I have to say it wasn't that bad but we will see when we get the marks.

Anouk and I also planned a trip for this weekend to Tai'an and Qufu so today we bought the train tickets for that. I hope the weather will be good if we go there because they say that there will be a lot of rain the upcoming days. WE will leave on Thursday evening and come back on Monday morning.

Next week we are free for a few days (they call that holiday over here) and probably the parents of Anouk will come to visit her so I will go travel around. They don't sell the train tickets already so I have to wait but if I can buy them I will go to Changsha, Guiyang, Chongqing end in Chengdu and then take the plane back to Shanghai. Very busy but I hope it will be OK. So if you wait a while there will be a beautiful story again.

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