{"id":654,"date":"2013-09-25T16:03:24","date_gmt":"2013-09-25T16:03:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/setcourseforchina.wordpress.com\/?p=654"},"modified":"2013-09-25T16:03:24","modified_gmt":"2013-09-25T16:03:24","slug":"studying-and-birthday-parties","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/evacohnchina.summitbiztech.com\/?p=654","title":{"rendered":"Studying and Birthday Parties!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/evacohnchina.summitbiztech.com\/2013\/09\/dscf0399.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image\" id=\"i-653\" alt=\"Image\" src=\"https:\/\/evacohnchina.summitbiztech.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/dscf0399.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This week I have my second Chinese exam so I&#8217;ve been a study bug. However, tonight was my friend Karen&#8217;s \u751f\u65e5 (birthday) so I decided to go out and celebrate! We met at a Chinese-Mexican restaurant called La Bamba.\u00a0 I ate delicious tacos and birthday cake. It was a very multi-cultural birthday party to say the least.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>I had to leave early to meet my language partner, Xu Jia. I have to admit that I think I had more fun just talking with her because she helped me learn a bunch of new grammar tricks.\u00a0 We sat in a cafe for 2 hours just going over my homework and sentence patterns I need to know for my exam.<\/p>\n<p>Although its important to go out, explore, and have fun, I think I benefit more if I put in some extra study time.\u00a0 I don&#8217;t know why but even today I went to a bakery and the staff yelled out \u6392\u961f\uff01which means form a line. I knew what that meant!\u00a0 The more time I put into studying, the more I understand when I go out into the city.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m sure other people would disagree with me but do what works for you, right?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This week I have my second Chinese exam so I&#8217;ve been a study bug. However, tonight was my friend Karen&#8217;s \u751f\u65e5 (birthday) so I decided to go out and celebrate! We met at a Chinese-Mexican restaurant called La Bamba.\u00a0 I ate delicious tacos and birthday cake. It was a very multi-cultural birthday party to say [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-654","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/evacohnchina.summitbiztech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/654","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/evacohnchina.summitbiztech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/evacohnchina.summitbiztech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/evacohnchina.summitbiztech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/evacohnchina.summitbiztech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=654"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/evacohnchina.summitbiztech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/654\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/evacohnchina.summitbiztech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=654"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/evacohnchina.summitbiztech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=654"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/evacohnchina.summitbiztech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=654"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}