Ok, after a long hiatus, I am back to posting again! First things first: I think I've figured out a way to share pictures; I'm going to post a link here to a publicly accessible Google Drive folder that has some photos in it; you should be able to view them (but not edit them) here: https://drive.google.com/#folders/0BwIlhxzg7ZrueEY1SVhZbnZBYkU. The one disadvantage is that this requires you to have a Google account, but it's the best I can do at the moment, and I assume most of you have one anyway, what with all that newfangled cloud computing internets technology you young'uns have nowadays!
On that note, my birthday was a little over a week ago. I am now 22; unfortunately this is a kind of boring age. I don't get to do anything new except for...look down on all you 21 year olds, I guess? In honor of this being an uneventful age, I had a rather low-key birthday party; basically, my friends and I went out for dinner at a Mexican restaurant. I then went home and went to bed fairly early; I feel so...middle-aged, and I kind of like it.
I just finished studying with my language partner; we were talking about her little brother, who will be taking the "Gaokao" (高考) this coming year. It's a standardized college entrance exam, like the SAT, but that comparison makes it sound far too benign; it came up because my partner mentioned in passing that her brother is preparing for it. The test is in June. He is studying for it RIGHT NOW. This is a three-day test that determines what college you get into, and basically controls ALL of your last year of high school. For all of our complaining about high-stakes testing in America, I'm pretty sure high-schoolers here have it MUCH worse. That is one thing (of many) that I am grateful for about the US.
Happy Birthday! Ok, I know we already said that to you, but I just wanted there to be a comment here. So glad about your pictures. I look at them frequently. That test sounds very hard. I told Luke about it. Yikes! Bye now. M
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