School has started again, and since the faculty didn’t get a new calendar from the school (as in the last years), I decided, I need to have a calendar, so I can keep track of my appointments and projects. Now, everyone who lives in China knows that going to any stationary store (or even supermarket for that matter), you can get notebooks of all shapes and sizes, and in any fashion you could imagine. However, the ones I would call “cute” probably make up the vast majority of them. Hence, last Monday, I went into the stationary store across the street, fully intent on wanting to get myself a new calendar/notebook. But alas! The choices! Flipping through the various calendar/journal type notebooks, I quickly came to realize however, that the calendar type notebooks are quite different from what I had expected, and whether they are that useful is a judgment everyone will have to make on their own. Certain things I did realize though: Notebooks usually come with many pictures, doodles, graphics, etc. Some of …