Three things that made me happy today:

1) I found deorant in a supermarket in Baoding!!!! It's a miracle!!!

2) We finished our first Chinese book that we have been using for the lessons, and today started the second one. Yay! Although it's all still very simple, I really feel like I'm making progress. This term also Bishi is taking the class with us, which is nice as we can all now have little conversations in class in Chinese. So we are over the stage of mere repetition and learning things by heart, now we actually *talk* in class... :))

3) The first trees, the weeping willows, are starting to turn green. The spring is here!