How to tie a sari:

Sniggles got me m first sari for my birthday!

So I guess I'm not a teenager anymore...

What a day! I felt like I did before I made the connection between Santa Claus' handwriting and my dad's. :) It was Christmas and love all day. I'm in such a vastly different place from where I was in high school. In a very good way. I listen to the Beatles now. I promise, I'm going to start writing more!

Yelu Daxue (Yale University)

So... I'd like to continue this blog for family and friends since there are many "fun and exciting places" at Yale too. I'm really glad I did the Chinese program this summer for many reasons but also because I never got out of the studying rhythm. This semester my classes include: Chinese, Painting (with Robert Reed), Reading and Writing the Modern Essay, The Cold War, and Galaxies and the Universe. I'm really excited and happy with my classes so far. Professor Reed is definitely going to squeeze as much out of me as he can. This first weekend we have been instructed to "penetrate the color and mix the recipe." We're collecting 6 plastic containers filled with every shade of Green, Black, Blue, Red, White and Purple. He wants us to understand that "that grey" is not "the name grey." And that grey white and red white and purple white are not the same. As is custom with Reed we are learning by doing. By the end of the semester we should be able to look at a brick on Broadway and mix that exact shade of burgundy. For now I am running around campus with scissors and a plastic bag. He likes quantity.