The typhoon and other stuff

8th October
Last night the typhoon was quite bad and kept me awake for ages. In my room the windows arent very good and they were rattling loads because of all the wind.
Today was the first day back at class after golden week so it was an effort getting up at 7, especially with the weather being so crap outside. We had planned to go on a boat trip in the afternoon, but because of the wind and rain we decided against it and we just went shopping in xujiahui instead.

9th October
This morning we got the bus and the metro into town and we went to pu dong to have a walk around and look at all the huge buildings. Even though i've seen them quite a few times they're still amazing. We went to walk by the river because i've never seen the bund from the other side of the river, but the walkway was flooded because of all the rain from the typhoon.
We went to get some lunch and we found a nice italian place - was nice to have a change from chinese food.
In the afternoon we went to the aquarium which was really good. There were soooooooo many fish, nemo was my favourite!

10th October
This morning on the way to class I saw Gemma and Fran who told me that we had to sign up for field trips before friday which was annoying because on the timetable the uni gave us it said we had to sign up on monday next week. After class i went to sign up but there was no one there and i didnt have time to go in the afternoon, but fran said she hadnt got round to doing it either and that there would be places left because only 2 people had signed up so far.
In the afternoon we went on a boat ride which was really nice, and it was a nice sunny day. After the boat ride we went to bookshop street (actually called fuzhou lu - but its just the street where the bookshops are) and I got a french grammar book because I thought I should try and learn some french this year so that im not really crap in 4th year. We went for tea on one of the boat restaurants on the river which was really nice.

11th October
Today I managed to sign up for a field trip. We are all going to the yellow mountains which look really pretty. And I will be there for my birthday which i'm really looking forward to!