First Week of Classes: Success!

Love my classmates, love my teachers, love everything about the Alliance program so far. One week down and we are already so close...much different from last semester with 75 students as opposed to this semester's 15. This is the way life should be: fun, educational, challenging...cheesy. So lets talk about Shanghai weather. Freezing. Blue skies....yes, this is actually true. Freezing. Rain. That pretty much sums it up. It has been raining a ton, but when the rain stops the weather is truly beautiful and sunny. I am starting to think the clouds floating about Fudan campus are actually made of condensed water droplets (or something sciency) and not little cancer cells mixed with factory dust waiting to attack every unsuspecting lung. Class starts at 9:00 am which is really cool, so I have been getting a good amount of sleep so far, but that didn't stop me from once again catching the infamous Chinacold. Hopefully this one won't last two months and 300 years like the last one. We are out of class by 2:30 and since I only have Chinese classes that leaves a little time to rest or make a quick shopping run at the nearest fake market.