Last two days of October- crazy; long but productive day at school; dinner at teachers house; Bible study at the chinese church at 7:30; socializing after church until close to 10. Phone call inviting me out to karaoke; Jingjing told them that Fridays aren't good because we have church; they said they are waiting for us. Rushed home, got to the hotel at 10:30- stayed for an hour; got home took a shower just in time for Jennifer to meet me at 11:45 pm. We were starting a book writing project. She does it every year so she asked me to join in with her this year. Official start date is November 1st so we started at 12:01 am; wrote or quota for the day and went to bed

Next day- woke up at 8 am; laundry, clean the house; chinese teacher asked to visit me; pedicure/manicure/eyebrows at 2 pm; errand with Jingjing at 3:30- our "errand" became a 6 hour shopping spree! She came to my house after and we spent more time together