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Open Internet

I've made another post at ChinaGeeks.

I always thought that the Chinese internet was quite free. Just like the Soviets could show their displeasure at Reagan at the Kremlin, we can not only do the same at the Foreign Ministry...

It was really hard. There were lots of strange cultural references (like the one above) but it was a bit of a rant, so he'd start sentences only to branch off in other directions without finishing his original thought!

My Mood: Lobotomic. I've been working at the area that I struggled the most in the interpreter test, the sight translation, by just reading the paper, and saying aloud my translation of it. Hard. Why an interpreter would ever be asked to translate a newspaper article into another language I'm not exactly sure, but it came up in my exam, so I'm working on it. In any case, it's been doing my head in, hence I feel like I've been lobotomised.

Also working on my shorthand. Have put Gregg to one side, giving Teeline a go (I hear it's easier).