today i had the second part of my midterm exam, which was the listening portion . i did fine, i think 86%, with most of the mistakes being on the single-sentence questions . it was fine . we do this thing where we take the exams very early in the morning, around 8:30am, and then get our results back around lunch time, when we go to our teachers to discuss them .
after i was done discussing my progress, which included telling me i need to respond with more than one sentence at a time, i went to meet my friend . a 20 minute cycle ride turned into 30 because the maps app i used turned me back on myself for some reason . this put me not in the best of moods, which i felt bad about, but my friend didn't seem to mind . we went into dongcheng to get some sandwiches and go to a few record stores -- i ended up buying five records to take home . i'm super happy about it . we got drinks at a bar afterwards, and split a pint of tanghulu cider, which tasted like liquid jam, and shared a plate of fried enoki mushrooms .
i am tired, but i had a good day again . i need to begin thinking about how to get my belongings back to the uk soon