Opening Ceremony

Well, today was the opeining ceremony of the language course. There was supposed to be an exam too, to test my level of chinese, but being on the first level of the elementary course they said I didn't need to do it, nice of them to tell me before I rode 40 mins in 30deg heat...lol

The ceremony was held in the university auditorium, a fairly large room full of aircraft like chairs, including the white covers over the headrests. Speaches were made, all in Chinese of course and all urging us to be good dutiful students. As the speaches went on people moved around the room taking publicity photos and one guy had a camera to tape the precedings, strangely enough they all seemed to concentrate on the westerners in the crowd, I guess any of the Asian nationalities present didn't interest them.

To be honest, the only benefit I got from going into uni was getting chatting to some other students, one from Aus and the rest from Newcastle Uni. I did take some pics but they didn't turn out too well, ho hum...lol