The Begining of the End

I realize how unoriginal the name of today's post is. Although unauthentic, the title seemes to appropriately describe today's feeling. Most of us feel the full impact of the final stretch; as some of us were kept up by an unknown group of people. At midnight, Alex and I specifically were woken up by banging on the walls and shouting from the neighbor room (608.) This continued on for 2 hours, also waking up Patrick Wong in the other neighboring room. (612.) Now we know how the rest of the hotel feels for one month every year.
On a lighter note, today we started practicing for the final performance. Our class (Molly and I's) began to memorize lines of an adaptation of Dr. Seus' "Are You my Mother?" They prepared construction paper costumes, to assist their adoption of animal roles.
To end our day, we visited the Museum/Memorial of Xuxiake; the man responsible for modern knowledge of China's geography. When he was young, Xuxiake traveled China using his father's money. His community viewed him as selfish. However, Xuxiake's travels eventually provided China with a rough map, which was later refined to form what we now recognize as China's geography.
Our day ended with dinner ordered by Ms. Hayden, the other Ms. Hayden, Ned, Mark, and Patrick.

~Max Fong