Kubrick o-phile, Carreofour, and my new Chinese name

Today was very relaxing, and I think I finally got over that jetlag. I slept in until 7:30 (hey I've been waking up around four or five as of late) and got breakfast. I ate a very greasy breakfast of guan bing which is a kind of pancaked with eggs and vegetables in it. I might have written about this before but I don't remember sooooo sorry. I was still hungry after the first one so I got another which probably wasn't the best decision because it made me a bit queasy. After breakfast we watched a short film about China's independent film market, which was interesting. Then we had a lecture from direction Zhang Xiansheng (I THINK that's his name I'm horrible at writing out spoken Chinese), which was... interesting. He seemed like he sort of had better things to do, but when he really got in to a subject that he liked it was definitely more interesting.

After the lecture I went back to my dorm and took a long nap to shake off my jetlag and get rid of my stomach ache. Then we went out to dinner at a fast food noodle place. I need to start eating milder foods for a couple days at a time so that my stomach doesn't get upset, but the noodles were good. After dinner we went to grab some detergent and snacks to keep in the room at Carreofour, which is kind of like a Walmart but from France. I got about seven different types of Pocky, and bought steak flavored potato chips for Kelsey (you're welcome).

We took the subway home. The subway in Beijing is very clean, my roommate said that it is because they are all very new due to the 2008 Olympics. Stephanie (a girl from NYU) and I went to the DVD store where they sell pirated DVDs. ALL KINDS of pirated DVDs. I almost bought Antonioni's China but I saved it for another day. I bought 127 Hours, True Grit, In the Mood for Love, Norweigan Wood (Kelsey, we watch this together), and Kubrick's entire collection. all for 127rmb, about 20 US dollars. I love China.