This Chinese essay I wrote last week during our 45 minutes class. That’s never enough time for me to write a longer essay and my teacher always likes to point that out, my essays are way too short! Click the essay to see a larger version! For those of you who don’t follow my Facebook page, me and my boyfriend are looking for a new apartment. My landlord wants to raise our rent and it’s already high enough. So we decided to move, just don’t know where yet! The following two weeks will be full of apartment hunting, packing and cleaning so there might be even fewers posts. I’ll write…

Every semester Sun Yat-Sen University has an essay competition for us foreign students. Last year I came second among us advanced students and this year I participated too. The results aren’t out yet, but I’m not too hopeful. There were many advanced class students this year. We had 2 hours and 20 minutes to write an essay. We could choose from ten topics (or perhaps even something else) and could use an electronic dictionary (I used Pleco). I didn’t have time to go over my essay so I’m sure there are plenty of mistakes in it. Click the pictures below to see them larger. The competition also has prizes! Last…