Classes were rescheduled and ended early today (a teacher told us that a 'foreign delegation' was visiting the school, whatever that means). We skipped the dining hall in favour of lunch at a Wudaokou coffee shop. These were atop the stack of magazines next to our table:



It's the chinese version of Seventeen, a magazine that I've always thought was oddly named because, as Chrissy once pointed out, "most 17 year-old girls have moved on to reading Cosmo".

It was fun browsing through while waiting for lunch to arrive: inside was the usual love, sex, beauty, and fashion advice, mostly in Chinese of course with the occasional english tagline. Chinese girls and actresses were featured in many, but not all, of the pictures and stories, as demonstrated by the picture of Hillary Duff on the cover.

What I didn't get was the two-page spread about appropriate hair dyes for people who have blond hair. Um, isn't the hair colour of this magazine's reading demographic a lot more like this?