Only One More Day Till Easter Holiday!!!!!

Lay ho!

Just finished studying for my last midterm which is tomorrow afternoon. I think a little bit of studying tomorrow morning and I should be good to go. Cross Fingers. In total I've had three midterms. One was quite difficult but I knew it would be; it was in travel agency operations. Yesterday I took my marketing midterm and I think it went fine. The entire exam was multiple choice and there were only a few I wasn't sure about. Now one odd thing with taking exams here is that they schedule them out of regular class time and everyone who is taking the subject takes it at the same time. When I showed up to the Amphithetre yesterday there was a line of students waiting to get in because they don't let you in till like 5 min. before exam time. I took the time to go outside and sit and eat my snack of Octopus and Veggie balls instead of standing in line. Delicious! So tomorrow I have one class and then my Human Resources Midterm which the professor chose to put at 4:30pm the day before Easter holiday............why? Beats me, but I've come to terms with it.......sort of.

This Weekend!
IFT Singing Competition!!!!! - Three of my guys friends were in it and one even moved on to the second round. There were over 50 contestants and it was awesome how everyone just got up a sang. Sometimes the not-so-great singers got the loudest applause. I loved it!  If I can get a video of my friend singing I will upload it.

Now for the most exciting part...............................BEIJING!!!!!

I leave Thursday - Catch the Ferry at 9:30 to the Hong Kong International Airport. It cost a little more than the ferry to HK, but I don't have to take the MTR and it streamlines all the passengers through security and such! Woot! - My flight takes off at 1:20pm and lands at 5pm. - My most wonderful friend Sara, who I'm staying the whole week with, will meet me there and from there we will go to her parent's house to stay the night.

Friday: Move to her aunt's house, which apparently we have to ourselves for the whole week. Don't know where her aunt is, but I'm assuming Easter Holiday somewhere else.

Our schedule is fairly loose with no definite days, but our list of things we want to do in order of MUST DO is:

1. The Great Wall
2. Forbidden City
3. Chinese Hutong
4. Karaoke
5. Summer Palaca < really this one is higher, but apparently it is further out in the city, so we may or may not have time.

The list seems kind of short, but it leaves room for fun do whatever we please! I'm so excited about having a tour guide who has grown up in Beijing that I will follow her wherever she goes!

I'm staying until next Tuesday and sadly my flight leaves at 8am so I really only get four full days. I land in HK though at 3pm and plan on staying around to shop, sightsee, etc.

Now you may be wondering, "Catherine, how do you know Sara?" The answer is that during my first internship when I worked down at the Magic Kingdom I met Sara. She was on the International Program which only last a few months and we happen to work in the same area. She is totally awesome and we became friends then and have kept in contact ever since. One of my reasons for choosing China for study abroad was because I knew I would have the chance to see her and Cynthia (another girl I met at Disney). I never thought I'd see them again, but guess I was wrong! YAY!

Now, I'm off to watch an episode of Chuck, catch up on emails, maybe do a little research for my DMA project and hit the hay.

Till next time!