虽然没挂上号（意料之中）
走过站又恰好雪下大了
就去对面教堂暖和一会
拉丁语学的还是不到家
加上大写基本看不懂
志愿者大姐衣服很好看
门外很多人拍圣诞树🎄
想到近来友人遭遇
想不到大开方便之门的是宗教场所

看到鸽子就知道这家人还没搬走
原来以前普通教职工楼只有四层
教授小楼是三排连排
四栋校长小楼两个一排
以前觉得每栋楼都很高，小区也很大
现在没一会儿就走完了，觉得楼很矮

Today is my birthday. I don’t have any peers around to talk with, and I feel quite lonely. I’m reading the original edition of a book my professor gave me, with a kind of quiet reverence. I really like the old Beijing “qǐzi mó” 起子馍— it seems to be the local version of a scone.

I’ve lived in this noisy, miserable apartment for years. I never planted anything in the old flower pot left by a former tenant — yet after a month of rain, it bloomed on its own.
I hope my research can blossom like that wildflower.