ohh we're halfway there...

It's really weird that it's almost the weekend again. I am once again just shocked by how quickly the week has gone.
Best thing to happen to me lately: my dan1ban1ke4 (one on one) teacher told me today that my reading skills were improving. I did not believe him at all. I was like yea, I guess I can read if I'm reading the same paragraphs that I've memorized, but not otherwise.
But I'd been planning to buy a book, like a young adult novel, for a while now. And today I did. It's called "The Door Near Here" and it's a young adult book in English that has been translated into Chinese.
And I started reading from the introduction of the book and the author and found that it used almost half of the vocabulary that I learned in my Newspaper reading class. YAY!
Also, I find myself wanting to use certain terms only in Chinese - like vocabulary words = sheng1 ci2 instead. This is odd, but kind of exciting because I can feel my Chinese improving.
I do wish that I were going to be here for a year, though, because I know that I would improve so much more.
But I miss Yale, and I think that it was a great boon to have had the opportunity to come here for the summer.