Gave health benefit advice on activities good or bad to one's health. Gave advice on how to study Chinese. Translated questions and answers concerning the beginning of school at a university.

Was contrarian today by using 不见得 to every statement a fellow student makes about his school. Enumerated the reasons for picking a particular universty to attend.

Practiced using the 是。。的 and 除了。。意外 in practice dialogs about school. Read a text where these phrases are used. 读容易说很难。

Wrote an explanation of how to write my Chinese name 梅维民 using the characters in phrases and by describing the left and right components. Wrote several sentences using the 不见得 (not necessarily) construction.

Reviewed the use of 适应 (to adapt, to become accustomed to). Deciphered a picture of a sign that says 总服务台。I knew that I had seen these characters before, but this exercise put some more context to their use and think I won't forget them now. It says General Help Desk. Did another exercise using the names of beverages and answered some personal questions using the expression 再说 (what's more, besides, in addition).

Reviewed grammar uses of 省钱 （economize), 自由 (freedom, free), 不见得 (not necessarily), and 好处 (benefit, advantage). Did exercise that made me write names of sports and names of major cities in the world.

Reviewed uses of 方便 and 安全 as both predicates and attributes. Answered personal questions using expressions of clock time, and 除了。。。以外， 还。

Reviewed difference between 再说 and 而且. Also did exercises on describing characters by their component parts, left-right, up-down and using them in sentences.

Studied expressions for inclusion and exclusion: 除了。。。以外，除了。。。都。Practiced reading a business card and describing facts about the person.

Continued review of 了 particle. Completed a fill in the blank exercise describing the sequence of events in a student's day.

Describing the homophonic characters for hu2: 胡湖狐壶 and 弧. Review of the usage of the resultative particle 了。Reading comprehension of a text on living on campus versus off campus.

Focused on identifying characters through component parts or through contextualizing phrases. Helped me solidify my knowledge of passive vocabulary.

Doing 15 minutes of textbook and 15 minutes of workbook. Review of vocabulary. Will compose a paragraph to introduce myself.

Answered reading and listening comprehension questions about new first year students arriving at their university. Wrote out interview questions I would ask another student - where were you born? Where did you grow up? What time did you arrive at school today? How did you get to school today? What date did school begin? Do you live on or off campus? If you had the money, where would you like to live? Why?

30 minutes a day on grammar. I'm working my way through Level 2, Part 1 of the Integrated Chinese series.