So we are in the middle of the second week of our fall semester and I can tell that even though I still have much to learn, I have already improved. I can hold a somewhat reasonable conversation and understand much more of what people are saying. Though I sometimes get frustrated in our listening and speaking class when our teacher never fails to talk a little faster then our ears can listen, I am realizing, through the more and more that I understand, that what he does is really for our benefit.

In efforts to keep up the good news, I have found a place that has vegetable dumplings near my house, as well as an amusement park just a bus ride away :)