Patspam 5
In a few days time I’ll be heading home so this is probably the last patspam for a while (until the next adventure). I was planning on being up near the North Korean border until Sunday night but things fell through after Inner Mongolia so I’m back in Beijing with a little bit of extra time to tie up all the loose ends.
The last time I wrote I was just about to go see St. Germain play yeah? I didn’t realise that St. Germain have such a jazzy sound because in addition to their one-man DJ they’re actually a 7-piece jazz band, and a damn fine one at that! The concert was awesome, I got to see some lesser-known French hip-hop artists perform and it was hilarious seeing the literally hundreds of Chinese army cadets stationed all over the venue (a lot of them on tiny little chairs in the middle of the crowd) that the government had shipped in to ensure a happy communist event. Quite a trip..
Exams went smoothly, no dramas, and I was happy with my marks (which came out a few days ago). It always seems like such an anticlimax getting results at the end of a semester, you kinda forget all the pain you’ve been through, but this time I at least remember how totally lost I was at the start of the semester and how at times I doubted whether I’d be able to pass. So I’m rapt to have gotten through!
As soon as exams were over and I’d had a big teary night out with all my classmates, I jumped on a morning flight to Urumqi (XinJiang).
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