This week I realized for the first time that studying in China is what I would be doing this summer. No ice-cream trucks or baseball games, I would be studying hard for the next 6 months. So in efforts to have a little bit of an American summer, Hilary, Edmund and I played in our "back yard" (just a courtyard behind our dorm) during one of our lunch breaks. It's hard to balance fun and work here though because there is always so much to learn. So all I can do is keep working at having both.