Although the summer weather is hot, Beijing people love to eat hotpot

The summer program is officially over now. Well it's been a few days now but it doesn't seem that way. It still hasn't hit me yet. The title of this post was a sentence we had to memorize at the beginning of the program. For some reason it seemed appropriate to call this post that but I don't really know why. Oh, the picture at the start of this post is of our class and our 1对1 teacher who is a student at Yantai U. He gave us all handmade traditional Chinese good luck pieces. I hope to keep in touch with Zhong laoshi. The next 10 days are going to a much needed break for me. This past week was relatively uneventful. We did go to the Korean bakery a few more times which was great. This bakery is really out of a different world. They have real bagels, cinnamon rolls, French bread, smoothies, it feels like paradise on Earth considering you can't find any of this in China. Today we took our 1-on-1 professor out to the bakery before he went back to his hometown. After the bakery, I walked around campus to take some last minute pictures. Later on in the day it was time to go back to the child labor Korean restaurant and visit the 3 cone in one ice cream stand. A bunch of us went to the lake and sat around enjoying the cool night. It was a nice, relaxing night before heading off to Korea. Tomorrow myself and Charlie have to hit the chuzuche (taxi) at 8:30. We have a plan to meet our friend at the Chinese embassy which is about 15 minutes away. It should be quite the adventure even though we have all of her information. So its a week and a half before we head back to Beijing to start the fall semester. Ha, it is crazy to think about how quickly the summer program passed. 2 months are down, 4 to go.