How do I know that I'm almost to where my Chinese class meets? I pass this atrocious looking building:

It's a western style restaurant called Smokey Joe's that serves pseudo Tex Mex and pasta. Expensive, mediocre food, if it's anything like the Smokey Joe's near my apartment.

But the nice thing is, it's a good landmark. In a city where just about every street looks the same and the street names change on the whim of some bureaucrat, it's good to have the occasional unmistakable building.

In Chinese last night we expanded our useful vocabulary to include words such as duzi (belly), e (hungry) and tu (vomit). I can see the makings of a really interesting story using those words.