134 dtg (back in the Qing)

Back in the Qing(dao) with 134 days to go after some brief holidays and life is great. Cancelled my enrolment at the university in favour of attending a private school where I get to set my own curriculum, how cool is that? So I asked the teacher: Can you give me a new topic every day, I go home and write and essay, and then the next day in class we can review it together? Repeat this 100 times over 100 consecutive days and I reckon in three months time I should be able to write like a native no problem. They agreed, and we started today - I'll post the more interesting ones here.

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