The Weekend & Monday

Saturday I went with my roommates to this electronics district,
where they have very large buildings, about 6 stories packed with
stalls and booths and counters for electronics retailers. Any
computer part, MP3 player, A/V equipment, etc was there. One roommate
bought a new battery for his computer, and the both of them bought
web cameras for 130 RMB ($15) for both. I was looking for a place
that would upload some new software to my cellphone so that it could
work, because I found a guy at a store near my apartment that would
do it. However he wanted to charge more than a company in the states
would charge. I figured I could find it done cheaply at the
electronics district, however that was not the case. So I got this
guy to do it for a little more than $30 and now it works fine. I can
justify a cellphone here because our apartment phone rings softly and
has no message machine, plus everyone lives either far away or in a
locked apartment building. The way you get a plan and minutes here is
you just buy a card which goes in your phone and is your telephone
number, and then you buy a credit card thingy which has a code which
adds more minutes to your telephone number. Its pretty simple.

Sunday was entirely ultimate frisbee. This time it was a lot
more competitive as the good players came out and 2 new college
graduates came out. One of the "captains" explained the offense for
the Hong Kong tournament and the people going there tried to work on
that during pickup. I am going to the Hong Kong tournament on October
22-23. It is looking like it will only be about $350 or possibly
less, less than the $500 quoted to me previously. The great thing
about our pickup/scrimmages here is that you get a lot of ultimate in
for one day. We must play a few games worth of points. So you are
tired at the end but get as much time as you would like. Then we go
out to dinner afterwards.

Next week, starting October 1, is some sort of holiday. It means
that I am out of school from Saturday to Friday, then we are back in
school saturday and sunday and monday etc. I did not find out about
this until last week, and I would like to do something but don't know
what to do. I could go on a trip with my school to Inner Mongolia
(referring to a region in China, not the country), that is a little
over $200. I'm wondering if it would be wise to save that money or
not. However a week in Beijing while some of my friends are out
traveling might get old. Any comments?