Monday 7 April, 2014
¥6.00 Breakfast (Uni Restaurant)¥13.00 Snacks (For train ride home from Wuxi)
¥30.50 Lunch (Maccas)
¥19.00 Pudding (Welcome Home Pudding!)
¥20.00 Dinner
(¥88.50)
Tuesday 8 April, 2014
¥3.00 Breakfast (Uni Restaurant)¥3.50 Latte
¥42.00 Lunch (Peet's)
¥200.00 Tutor
¥13.00 Dinner
¥14.00 Milk Tea (Coco)
¥5.00 Street Performer
(¥280.50)
Wednesday 9 April, 2014
¥6.00 Breakfast (Uni Restaurant)¥6.70 Exercise Books
¥12.50 Coffee
¥11.20 Lunch
¥45.50 Dinner
¥2.00 Pineapple
¥7.00 Taxi
(¥90.90)
Thursday 10 April, 2014
¥6.00 Breakfast (Uni Restaurant)¥20.00 Payment for Class Excursion (To ShaoXing)
¥10.00 Laundry Coupon
¥4.00 Lunch
¥50.00 Cobbler
¥23.80 Tissues
¥3.00 Pineapple
¥20.00 Dinner
¥8.00 Yoghurt and Water
(¥144.80)
Friday 11 April, 2014
¥6.00 Breakfast (Uni Restaurant)¥3.50 Latte
¥6.00 Lunch
¥9.00 Dinner
¥9.00 Milk Tea (Coco)
(¥33.50)
Saturday 12 April, 2014
¥3.00 Breakfast (Zongzi)¥28.00 Cafe (1897)
¥4.00 Lunch
¥19.00 Dinner
¥2.80 Vitasoy
(¥56.80)
Sunday 13 April, 2014
¥4.00 Breakfast (Fujian)¥12.50 Cafe (Peet's)
¥12.00 Lunch
¥45.00 Fruits
(¥73.50)
Total: ¥768.50 ($137.90)
Weekly Total: ¥768.50 ($137.90)
Total Spend: ¥20905.75 ($4004.56 AUD)
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Actually the highlight of my week was Sunday, when my auntie here invited me to her house for dinner. But I forgot to bring my phone cable so I can't upload any photos from that.. hopefully I'll update that soon.
Next week is exam week, which means 4 exams. I also have my speaking presentation on the Monday, so I'm feeling a bit stressed and busy. Although really I shouldn't be feeling that worried, since none of my marks here count towards anything. But I really don't want my teacher to think I'm not a good student.. so I really want to do well. That's a lot of pressure on myself I know.. seeing that I also have my UTS assignment (which actually counts towards something) due the week after.
Anyway this week we spent a few nights learning and teaching each other Mahjong. There are many different ways to play Mahjong, depending on what style you learnt. I grew up with Cantonese Mahjong, which is a slower game as it requires more strategy. We also learnt Wenzhounese Mahjong, which according to my friend is all about the "win" as there is a big gambling culture there. It's much more fast paced - sometimes you spend more time "washing" the tiles than actually playing. The main differences between Wenzhounese Mahjong and Cantonese Mahjong are that:
Wenzhounese Mahjong has:
- each person starting with 16 tiles
- there is a wildcard tile that can stand for anything
- the "whiteboard" tile is played immediately as a separate tile (sort of like a flower) and gives you an extra point
- there are no flowers in the game.
- you can win with a basic hand (no special requirements)
Cantonese Mahjong has:
- 13 starting tiles
- most games don't allow "chicken soup", which is essentially a basic hand
- flowers (and other more complicated point systems)
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| ce also don't have a Mahjong table, so we play on the communal tables in level 2, which are a tad too small. |
I'm also starting to enjoy my elective classes more now. (Remember how I said I really didn't like both teachers?) Well now we all kind of poke fun at how serious our calligraphy teacher is (he's quite receptive to these jokes so that's alright), and I find how shy and quiet my art teacher is quite endearing - I imagine every time he takes initiative to correct us he's facing this huge internal dilemma over whether to talk or not.
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| We learnt how to write "Wan Shi Ru Yi" which means "Best wishes" or "May all your hopes be fulfilled." The style on the left is Chao Shu which is a fast calligraphy style, and the style on the right is Zhuan Shu which is the original (ancient) writing style. |
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