Woah there.

One month left?! You gotta be kidding me. 

My parents, Mark and Shauna were here this weekend and it was a lot of fun.  We walked around the seaside and May 4th Square, the Old German town, the Qingdao pier, and went to the Qingdao Beer Factory Museum.  And of course, ate a lot of seafood and drank a lot of beer. 

It was a fun weekend and now it's back to the last three weeks of teaching before I start exams. 

Plus, Matt gets here in 34 days (yes I started a countdown) and I cannot wait!

This is all very bittersweet though, because as much as I love to complain about China and its crap (my apartment smells strangely like sewage right now...), I do really like being here.  I'm excited for Matt to come but also at the same time a little sad because it indicates the beginning of the end of Mission: China 2k9-10. 

One of my students was crying during class today because she found out that because she landed the internship at The Beijing Hotel (an awesome 5-star hotel in downtown Beijing), she has to leave next week to start work.  She was just so upset that she had to leave a month earlier than everyone else and miss all the end-of-term parties and hoohah. 

I got a little sad too because I realized that would be soon too. 

So here's to enjoying my last few weeks here with some awesome people, good food and beer, and fantastic students. 

My apartment still smells like sewage and korean seafood though, and that sucks a lot.