Today is august 1, the army’s day. I still hiding in the library, killing time and rethinking those details for my Swedish trip.

I have got my railway tickets. Although I must pay 60 yuan for the booking of tickets, it was still acceptable while thinking the students’ ID have saved 90 yuan for me.

My mm will be back in the evening, she has stayed at home for five days. I felt uncomfortable in those days, for the suffering of loneliness.

Yesterday I accompanied my boss to the building of democratic parties in China. The party of MinMeng asked her to do a questionnaires research for collecting the information of party members. The description of data had finished by us, some further analysis was required. But I am not sure that I still have time to deal with it before I left China.

Anyway, it is not only “a new day has come”, but also a new month. For me, many changes will come in the next falling days, and a completely new life is waiting for me. Wish God bless his people, Amen.

Finally, I decided to start my paper yesterday evening. But now when I facing with those disorderly and unsystematic resources, I just feeling to lost my ambitions.

All right, just stop complaining and working for the damned paper right now! As E.E.Evens-Prichard said, when you reading his book 《The Nuer》, and seeing like those Nuer people, “the most evident symptoms” are “nuerosis”.

My topic will be “the linage system and political system—— 《The Nuer》and Chinese linage theories”. I am not sure that it will be a theory-oriented paper or book -reviewed paper. What a stupid student I am! Fortunately, the paper can be written in Chinese. It comforts me a little in some extent.

Well, I must stop and concentrate on paper now. Bless myself.

From yesterday, the weather in shanghai was becoming hotter and hotter, I crouched in the liberal library, from opening to closing. As Tony’s great electric fan worked quite well, I slept well. But the weather was and will be more terrible in the following days, lives in shanghai may become a nightmare.

Although I have been in library for two days, I haven’t finished my anthropology paper yet; in another words, I haven’t begin to deal with it. I must hurry up.

My mentor also gave me some works to do. Fortunately, my MM is good at those works; it is a good “labor diversity” for both of us.

I must deal with some important things in the following days, and may cost lots of time and energy on them. It must be a very busy period before we go to Sweden.

Yesterday afternoon, we went to Zhu Jia Jiao with those Taiwan people. I have been in shanghai for more than 5 years, but never been to this famous village before. It was sunny and a little bit hot for tourists. Nearly everybody had a sun umbrella, (especially women and girls) except me. Although the weather was not as good as the day before yesterday, people were very excited to look at those perfect sceneries.

Maybe it was a weekday, maybe the weather was hot, and the village was quiet and peaceful, let us felt that it was waiting and preparing for us only. A river divided the small village into several parts, and wider than the other water villages’. It was wonderful when overlooking on the famous bridge, FangShen Qiao.

Another part interested me a lot was the best private garden in Zhu Jia Jiao, Ma’s garden. We followed the travel guide to visit the garden, and it was really a great garden, better than I can imagine. As it was very big, we spent nearly half an hour in it. Then we traveled by boat, I thought it was cool because I was from a north metropolis which didn’t have rivers like this. When we visited a temple after boating, I noticed that several Taiwan people were praying and mumbling, very sincerely. I was moved by what they had done, but I can not follow them: not because I am a communist, but because I didn’t know how to do it.

Before we leave, we traveled along the charming alley which called the north street. Two classmates and I finally decided to by a cute fan, for fun or for gift. My MM asked me to buy something for her, and I forgot she want some food there, and only bought a fan for her. Everybody can imagine what had happened to me when I hand out a little fan and said “here is your gift”.

When we came back to Fudan in the early evening, we decided to eat kabob for supper. And followed the ordinary way, we drunk a lot of beers too. Before another four Taiwan people came at 21:00, we six people (four Fudan students and two Taiwan men) ate more than two hundreds sticks and drunk sixteen bottles of beer. I still felt uncomfortable in the morning today.

Today is the ceremony day for their course completeness. After the ceremony, they have a two-day trip to Nan Jing and Su Zhou. It will be the duty of my roommate as their accompanier, not me. I have finished my job today, and can have a deep breathe and relax myself for a while. What a wonderful day today!

     Yesterday afternoon, my roommate and I went to shanghai museum and the famous “Xin Tiandi”, as the accompaniers of Feng Chia University visiting groups. I like shanghai museum very much, and even it was the second time I visited the museum, I felt falling in love with those Chinas, paintings, and calligrapher works, and so on. My roommate was from Shanxi province, he loved those bronze works a lot. I talked to Susan today about shanghai museum, she also loved those works, and the old furniture, local costumes, and so on. I do like them too, but frankly speaking, I prefer those Chinas, paintings and writings. We cost one and a half hours in the museum, and felt a little bit tired when we went out.

We only cost twenty minutes in “Xin Tiandi”, and hurried go to the restaurant located in west Huaihai road. A schoolfellow of their university hosted this supper. As there were not enough seats for all of us, my roommate and I had our supper in another table. We also felt nervous by that guy’s sayings after he drunk. It was a tired and uncomfortable day for both of us, I must say.

Now I am sitting in the liberal library, reading those traveling companions. Compare with yesterday evening, what a wonderful life I have now！