smogy fog

The school is a bit outside the center of Beijing and it's practicly been sunshine and blue skyes all the time we've been here. It's amazing how just an hours travel makes such a big difference! It's quite nice to be able to see the sky and wake up in the morning without a grey blanket hovering over the city.
If you look around you can quite clearly see in which direction the center is, just from the amount of smog covering the horizon.
Anyway woke up this morning and there's something in the air.. Can't quite figure out if it's actual fog or if it's stupid smog.. It's probably a mix of both, smogy fog! But I'm gonna pretend it's real fog and that the air is clean!
I think someone told me that being in Beijing on a bad day was like smoking 17 cigarettes? Or maybe it was more...
By the time I get home I'm sure I'll be a serious second hand smoker, just from being here..

And on to the big news! I've got classes! Wuuhuuu! I finally got classes this week and onwards. 8 hours a week, which I know isn't alot compared to the others, but it's something to do other than being on Facebook all day.
Though it's not "real" classes. It's IELTS speaking classes. IELTS = international english language testing system. IELTS is a way to test how good your english are if you're gonna study or work abroad. And my classes are just like miniversions of the actual IELTS speaking test, they're gonna take later this year. The test is shaped like an interview, so that's what I'm basicly doing, from a book that gives the topics and questions. Meaning I don't really have any preparation to do!
But classes! Weeeeee