Happy Mid Autumn Festival!

Make sure you all go and enjoy the moon sometime today! Zhen piaoliang!

Woke up early to go to lab; we ended up beating the graduate student there. Always a bad way to save face (for them). Did some basic preparations for the experiments on Thursday. Was treated like a talisman. Really, now. It was a little ridiculous.

Got four moon cakes, though: egg, ham and date! listed in backwards order of preference.

Thought I was going to kill Allie though because we were cleaning out flasks with this dry detergent-type solid and then after we put the flasks back, she flicks her soapy-water hands at my face.

Normally I am fine with this playfulness. Not in the lab. Never in the lab. And especially not in a Chinese lab. I pretty much sobered her up with a dead polite, "please do not flick soap water into my eyes..." Erg. Just frustrating. It was made even worse by the fact that AFTER we've washed these things, Yang goes, "Oops! We should wear gloves now!" Kill me. Because if you don't, I'll die a horrible death in this lab.

Managed to memorize almost the whole dialogue for the test on Friday. Generally I don't prescribe to the fact that route memorization is the best method by which to learn, but for China? I make exceptions.

Visited the BeiDa club fair and signed on to the animal rescue club. Accidentally, of course. I filled out all the information before I remembered that all the clubs here require deposits. Ah well. I got book marks and a paw-print pin out of it. Save the cats!

Allie is keeping a gecko in her room, hiding it from her roommates. I don't blame her; would much rather have a gecko than a solid bug population.

Celebrated the moon festival at the Old Summer Palace. There were lanterns and everything! It was very pretty. I'm going to upload my pictures shortly:

http://picasaweb.google.com/JennFantasia

Enjoy!