As we went to bed late last night from the dinner, none of us really woke up until about 09:00, and then we weren't really up, changed and ready for the day until 11:30. At 12:00 we were meeting up with Ibby again about a 15minute walk away from our apartment. Luckily, it was easy to find our meeting spot since it was literally round the corner and down the road from ours. so we didn't need to be afraid about getting possibly lost on the way.
We showed Ibby around the apartment, and from the looks of her reactions, it seemed to me that she was about 80% definite about taking up the offer to become the 3rd member of the apartment. However, she'll be returning tomorrow with her brother so they can discuss whether the apartment is worth the rent.
Ibby then left about 20minutes of seeing the apartment and we literally just spent the rest of the day inside. Well, we went to the local shop too to buy a few snacks and drinks but other than that, nothing was done, nowhere was visited.
The plan for the afternoon was that Dominic and Adam were meant to be coming to visit us at our apartment and we were going to go out and eat hotpot together in the nearby restaurant. However Dominic's laptop had a few problems so he went with Adam to get it fixed and then Adam was to text us when they had finished.
With nothing to do, we were all feeling rather sleepy, tired, and lacking energy (the most reasonable explanation for this is likely to be because of our unhealthy, and little food consumption since arriving in Beijing). So lacking of energy in fact, that I even fell asleep for a good hour and a bit.
Apparently, Tanya tried to wake me up to ask if I wanted a yoghurt since I hadn't really eaten all day, apart from ice cream for breakfast this morning. I was told she kept tapping me, but I was in such a deep sleep that I didn't notice. However, when she attempted to call my name down my ear, I jumped up in surprise. I think I might have hit her in the process, but I'm not too sure. Anyway, I had my yoghurt and felt a bit more awake.
We then received news that Dominic and Adam had finished doing what they were doing, and were making their way back to their BNU accommodation room. Guess what this meant. Dinner was cancelled... And because we were feeling rather lazy, we decided that even though we could just go out as us 3 girls, we couldn't be bothered and would just eat ramyun or something instead.
We then turned on the TV for a bit to see what was on. Everything was in Chinese though. But we did end up watching a drama, not sure what about, but it was extremely dramatic. From what we saw, there was a man who was always deep in thought every time he was on camera, a girl who was in love with him yet got rejected and then attempted to leave the country due to depression but stayed back because she still loved the thinking man (who also ran to the airport to prevent her from boarding the plane), there was a chef who's father was in hospital and his mum was possibly having money trouble, a woman whom the chef was in love with and vice verse except she was in hospital because she was blind or something, and another woman who was also in love with the chef. In the end, the two men married the ones they were in love with, and the last woman... well I'm not sure what happened to her, but she seemed happy.
Selina (who unfortunately didn't pass first year) came on Skype and we Skyped for a bit, although the connection wasn't too good so we just ended up Facebook chatting. It was nice to see her again since it'll be a while until the next time we see her in person, and it's also been a while since we had last met her.
Next, something rather dumb happened. The air conditioner was on 24C and because I was feeling cold, I decided to turn the temperature down. Not thinking properly, I thought turning the temperature down meant turning the number down, so I put it down to 17C. This was left on for a quite a while until it was turned off by Charlotte because she was feeling quite cold. About 20minutes later, Tanya turned the air conditioner on again because she was feeling a bit hot, and was wondering why the air conditioner had been set to 17C. I explained I did it because it was too cold, and then it triggered. I had been a bit of an idiot and made the room colder rather than warmer, and then Charlotte and Tanya said how they thought it was unusually colder than normal just before Charlotte turned the air conditioner off earlier. Woops.
The time now was about 19:00 and we just spent the rest of the day (up until about half an hour ago) just watching TV. Tanya fell asleep on the sofa around 22:00, but Charlotte and I stayed up watching some Chinese show about a group of Chinese kids having an entertainment battle against Americans. In the end, America won, which was kinda annoying seeing how some of the Chinese acts were better than the American ones. It was quite fun and hilarious to watch though as the American tried too hard, and one man who was singing Beyonce's Halo song went a bit crazy with the lyrics and even though his voice went all over the place, he won his battle. This was probably because he was trying to reach notes higher than you'd expect from a man. His mouth was pretty huge too, and he kept making weird faces. Not that that has anything to do with anything. But still.
We then watched the Chinese version of Take Me Out, which had a girl with a ridiculously high, babyish voice with another, ridiculously dramatic life story to tell. She ended up being picked as the girl to be taken out by the 31 year old single man. She was 21...
Anyway, that was pretty much it. Seriously. We did absolutely nothing. But tomorrow should be more interesting since Ibby will be visiting with her brother, Beth will be arriving and coming to the apartment, and maybe Dominic and Adam will come visit the flat. So a lot more should be happening than today.
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