Meeting my teachers and classmates

The results of the entrance exam were posted this afternoon, and everybody was trying to find their name on one of the many lists. Quite a hectic affair with 300 new students. On the website of the Overseas Education College everyone has their own profile page, but the class schedule was not yet updated there.
I found my name on the list of class 8, among many different nationalities. We went to room 305 to meet our teachers, Wang Li Yuan and Liu Yan. Two young women still in their early twenties. My classmates are mostly Asian: Japanese, Korean, Filipino, Thai, and Indonesian, but also a Russian, Armenian, Estonian, Israeli, and me as the only Western-European. To my surprise (and relief) no Americans and no other Dutch in my class.
We all did a short introduction of ourselves in Chinese, which gave a nice indication of the varied levels, even within this class, which was already put together based on the entrance exam result. I expect there will be some movement between classes after the first week, when it becomes more clear if the class level is the best fit for each student. For me, it will partly be a rehearsal of last year, since we will start with the second book, which I already finished. But since I forgot most of it, it won't do any harm to redo it.
My class schedule is very relaxed. I only have classes in the afternoon, from 13:00 to 14:30, and from 14:40 to 16:10, five days a week. So I don't have to get up early and have the mornings free to either sleep in, go swimming or do homework ;-)
I took my Israeli classmate (Lulu) to my village to direct her to some real-estate agents. She tries to find a place to live here, but didn't find anything suitable at her first round through the village. Most of the foreign students are either living on campus (many of the Asians who have a scholarship), or in one of the highrise buildings opposite the West gate, paying up to 2000 RMB for a single room.
I count myself lucky in Zeng Cuo An.