People from my university

Let's start with the manicure I got last month - cost me a whole 25 RMB (7 RMB = $1 Cdn) for all ten fingers, and my students tell me that's expensive (some said it was OK). I loved the manicure though - thought it suited me very well and everyone complimented me on it. :-)

A close up of the design - the way the lady did it was that she put three white dots on the red background, then took a pointed tool and zig-zagged through the fresh white "paint" to make the cool-looking flower design. Loved it!
The "Frenchies" - as we're called on campus - have staked out this area outside the second cafeteria, right by the sports ground, which we call "les arcades," and which more and more foreigners have been using as their hang-out.
One lunch, there were more of us than usual. Here are Katia's two roommates. Diana's on the left (Ukranian 17-year-old studying here for four years - this was her second of the four), and Mariana (Russian 20-year-old studying Chinese in Beijing just this year, although she's been studying it for six in total, I think, and speaks very well, and she can also speak English and French) is on the right.
Gaetan. Where was Loic that day?
Branko (Croatian - 22? 23? - studying in Moscow at a Russian university) and Katia. He's a funny guy. Likes breakdancing.
Yas - Katia's Japanese friend...
He was particularly handsome on this day - must've been very happy to see Katia. :-)
We went to a park one Sunday afternoon to go to an outdoor swimming pool and found a group of people practicing water calligraphy on the ground. The characters dry - and therefore disappear - practically on the spot since it's so hot and dry out these days... We practiced a little too! It was fun. This guy was really good.
Katia, Diana and Mariana at the outdoor swimming pool. It was perfect - very hot outside but cool in the pool.
The four girls hanging out on the slice of beach that existed by the pool. Places to sit were sparse at this pool - no grass!!!
Guillaume was the only guy who came with us. Katia's taking the picture - her nose is in the bottom right.
"The beach."
The "official" who kept tweeting his whistle at foreigners because he didn't know what to do with them when they broke regulations. He tweeted at us for eating our chuar - BBQ meat on a stick - on the beach, which isn't allowed.
After refreshing ourselves in the pool we went to do some colouring in the park. You fill a black-and-white drawing (it has 3D black borders that stick out a bit) with paint and then cook it and then the drawing can come off and you can stick it on your fridge - yay! What fun! For a whole 15 yuan.