Finally, justice prevails...

After months of waiting and contemplating an acceptance to McGill, my sister finally received her acceptance letter to Brown University (aka Ivy League).

It's for the Class of 2011 which means she can have a gap year. Lucky her!

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While on the topic of my sis I forgot to mention how kind her history teacher was in the gift he got her for the History Award. He got her 4 books! Here's a list of all the books she received at her graduation:

1) Bill Bryson's The Lost Continent: Travel's in Small Town America
2) Khalil Gibran's The Prophet
3) H.V.F. Winstone's Gertrude Bell: A Biography
4) Discover light, inspiring cookery from Vietnam for creative cooking
5) Rachel De Woskin's Foreign Babes in Beijing: Behind the Scenes of a New China
6) Robert Baldwin's Whales and Dolphins of Arabia
7) Haruki Murakami's Kafka on the Shore

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One of the pleasures of being home is Cable TV. Fox Sports is showing the Eng-SL series, TenSports is showing the Ind-WI series while Jazeera Sports Channel 2 is showing the entire French Open LIVE!

And not to mention, an awesome choice of news channels to go with it- Sky, BBC, NDTV, CNN, Fox etc. Movie channels at night. It's almost small screen bliss.

Curious

I've just returned from the Chinese Embassy, with a tourist visa and a rather interestingly titled book:

Human Rights Record of the United States in 2005, by the Information Office of the State Council of the People's Republic of China.

It has an ISBN and costs 14yuan. Perhaps if I read this on the journey there and wave it upon arrival they'll treat me like a state guest.

America, that human rights violator.

From Shanghai, With Love

Do you want a Chinese Postcard?

Post a comment with your address and I'll do my best. I've turned the screen option on so nobody can send you snail junk mail or anthrax. :)