brappy!

I woke up this morning thinking I was going to die; my cold got worse overnight. We had an early start, and after being out late for dinner, it was hard to sleep. I woke up around 8.30, already late for class and our classmate banging on our door. I shuffled my roommate out of the room and sat to "rest my eyes".

I woke up around 10.30 and my throat was burning. At lunchtime, I went to 五道口 Wudaokou (Five street intersection) and went to Watsons, which is a drugstore in every market... except China. Here they don't sell anything remotely resembling Sudafed, just health and beauty aids. It was like the whole store was missing the second floor. Ugh.

James' lecture after lunch on realism was interesting. I didn't realize that he would go so heavily into Chinese painting. I got lost in the use of simplified characters (yes, I hate them, you should too) and it took me a while to realize that he was talking about 國畫 (the simplified variant looks like 国画). The lecture was well-done, although it was disappointing that we had to break it over two days, but my attention was flagging.

After a break, the class watched Frozen while I went back to sleep. I woke up as my roommate came back from the movie, had dinner and went to sleep again. I hoped I would feel better in the morning...