Lying Down But Not Sitting Up

Recently, I’ve been a bit lazy and haven’t written in my diary much. Mainly, I just haven’t been in the mood, and often after typing a few hundred words, I’d realize I wasn’t making any sense and delete everything. However, there have been many things worth writing about these past few days. First, on the 22nd, I went to Houhai with Lin Ran and Lü Zhe. We had a lot of fun that day, but I’m too lazy to recount it all. Houhai is pretty nice, and those who have been there know what I mean.

After that, we went to Yinghua Valley, also known as the Xiangshan Botanical Garden. It was okay, but I feel like I’ve been spending my entire vacation going to one valley or gorge after another (I’ve been to four such places in total). Each one is just a mountain on either side with a small stream in the middle. So, when we went this time, I just couldn’t muster up the enthusiasm…

Later, I went to my aunt’s house to fix her computer. Apparently, a “computer expert” is just someone who can fix computers. I naturally couldn’t resist the opportunity, and after fiddling around for five minutes (the keyboard and speakers weren’t plugged in properly…), I earned 200 yuan (under the guise of celebrating my university admission, of course). It was a pretty good deal, considering that if we had hired that “Fangzheng” person, it would have cost 150 yuan. I guess computer repair services are all pretty pricey.

Okay, moving on to yesterday, I finally went back to school to pick up my files and ran into Mei and Gao Shuo from my high school class. Ah, Song had said he was going to organize a outing… I hadn’t been back to school in three months, and I discovered that a new cake shop had opened up next to the school. It looks like the students who will be studying there in the future are in for a treat. Also, the classroom windows have all been replaced with sliding windows. This means that the great, high-difficulty “window-flipping era” has come to an end. Hehe, our chemistry professor, Cao Jüdong, had even praised the students who dared to flip windows back in the day.

The school’s biology corridor was completely unchanged, but the fish I had put there seemed to have decreased in number, with less than 10 left now. Jiang Zhi really isn’t cut out for raising fish. That enthusiastic kid was still in the lab, and before I knew it, he’d be facing his senior year. This time, he gave me a surprise - a Burmese python, over a meter long, very aggressive, and loved to bite people. However, I won’t have the chance to visit that lovely lab again in the future. I hope that China Agricultural University has even better, more numerous, and more exotic animals for me to explore.

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In the evening, I attended the opening ceremony of an Indian film festival with my mom. Although I had been to the Oriental Plaza with Lin Ran a few times before, it wasn’t until this time that I realized just how big it was… After eating and drinking to our hearts’ content, we watched a movie called Locha, which was about counter-terrorism and was really well-made. It looks like the movies produced by Bollywood aren’t bad either.

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Then there was today - I went hiking in the morning and ended up exhausting myself. I guess my physical strength really isn’t up to par… This comfortable life of only doing sit-ups (courtesy of Garfield) is coming to an end, and it’s time to start welcoming a new life.

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