Alice

I am so grateful I had the chance to meet so many great friends in this week long conference. I owe my greatest gratitude to Andy and of course my dear advisor. I learnt much more beyond as a Mathematician. really like the bars, the people around, and maybe the food (if not so much and so similar every day). I also experienced with my lovely roommate the worst hotel we've ever seen in the US. But it's free, it's clean and it's durable, so we don't really complain. Besides, fun time with friends and the city prevent us paying much attention.

I want a real trip now.

I was thinking it's Vegas.

Now I think it's Hawaii.

Every time i mention this to people, i was unavoidably asked "who u r going with? "

"O, Well ~"

I haven't been touching my blog for a long while not because I didn't have things to write, but there are so many things that i don't know where to start. I am very happy with my Mac. It's white, pretty, fancy and fast. There was once I used my dirty marker hands touching it right after my teaching, and it thus got several dark spots on its face. I am thinking of ways of removing them and I know I can't bear it if i don't change it back. I became so lazy after back from Maryland, in terms of hating traveling and commuting lately. Washington state is really different from elsewhere. There are 90% americans here while in DC area I can say 50% would be the most. Sometime I feel like I got used to the life in DC more easily because I considered it was more in reality for me, and it's more like China. I can't really tell people what I learned most in the summer. But I will say i learned more than the past 3 years and I can make an actual list to prove my words. Right now, I realize I have so many things I can do and I want to do that I can't waste my time anymore. Research, that's part of life, no doubt. Teaching, that's what I'm making a living on, lots fun as well. Helping people, I am always trying to. I will find out how far I can reach in 2 more years of school :)

Virginia and Maryland are so close. I almost shopped down Virginia every week. A lot of people living in Virginia while working in Maryland. It sounds like Virginia people love Virginia better and Marylander used to hang out around Maryland more, even MD is so small. I personally like Maryland better. Cauz I personally think it's more advanced, more comfortable. I didn't mean to heart Virginia friends and hopefully they will never know this little trivial secret. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ I got a white MAC lately, so I am catching up with using it and try to get a more comfortable feeling. I thus lost Chinese input. Maybe I can get one with a little bit work, but right now I am so lazy to do it. We are living in the US anyway and we are speaking, chatting in English everyday. Why not just typing longer sentences to make it a blog. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- I feel I couldn't sleep enough lately. I was always trying to push all the sleep to the weekend. However, my weekend would never be vacant. I always tried to fully book the whole weekend to feel good. I really like to go out with friends on Friday night and attempted to stay up till midnight. That's what we called a weekend. It's gotta be different ha.

去了好多MUSEUM，我很喜欢这里的MUSEUM，各式各样的，AIRSPACE, NATUAL HISTORY, AMERICAN HISTORY, SCULPTURE, HIRSHHORN,ETC, 一次根本看不完的。以后再每周有空时仔细的看看每个地方了。这里很好的就是大部分MUSEUM,MONUMENT,MEMORIAL,都是免费参观的。毕竟还是学生，很多文化的熏陶，丰富知识眼界，觉得很舒服。前几年去过的其他大城市，为的都是吃喝SHOPPING+腐败，感觉舒服却罪恶。这里只需要几块钱的地铁就可以玩上一整天了。

这是个不知道干什么的城堡，只是觉得外形和颜色好看就照下来了。

我还挺土的，第一眼看见这白楼就以为是白宫，后来知道是CAPITOL，就跟原来在OLYMPIA见过的华州CAPITOL一样。

WASHINGTON MONUMENT, 想上去的话得在网上提前很久预订的，等楠楠过来了，也许我会预订一下上去看看，据说很壮观能看到全市，很多人排队。

肯尼迪剧院。这是这周的活动了。主要去了肯尼迪剧院和GEORGETOWN两个地方。肯尼迪剧院有个365天免费演出的节目，每天都有表演，质量也不错的，演员过来免费出演一方面也是为了提高自己的知名度，对丰富简历比较好吧。我们昨天就听了一个二三十年代的BLUES表演，还不错。下下个星期还有美国芭蕾舞团表演，25刀，正在盘算去观看。估计这里很多表演都是情侣或者家庭什么去的，因为我打听买票的时候人家第一句问我，DO YOU HAVE A SPECIAL DATE YOU WANT? 我说就想看演出也没什么特别的日子。

这只鸭比较搞笑，整个一个大池子就这么一只，也不知道从哪里来的， 它不寂寞么。