No time to study??

I'm amazed but I don't have time to study. Partly I think it's the slow pace of my mandarin class - because of the variety of standard (reading, writing, speaking, everyone has their own pace).

This is how my last 24 hours panned out.

Last night - up late chatting online to friends and catching up with emails.

This morning, woke at 10am after various phone calls from my landlady, enquiring after the maid who came yesterday. Went to the Foreign Student's Office to update a bit of paper which I need to apply for my Student Visa and Resident's Permit. Wanted to go to the Local Police Station to register my home, but was told that I needed to bring my landlady with me.

Bicycle broke (rear lock came loose, got trapped in rear spokes when riding, broke a few spokes), so took it to repair shop. Wasted half an hour waiting. Had ten minute lunch with friends, then walked to language class at about 12.30pm.

Class finished at 4pm. Made appointment with Landlady to go to police station tomorrow morning. Picked up bike from repair shop, went home, took taxi to Carrefour hypermarket to buy things for home. Bought wastepaper bins, soup tureen, mop, bucket etc. some frozen food. Back home for about 8pm, prepare dinner with friends, eat at 9.30pm, see them off at 11.30pm. Chat to friend Dipan from London. Write emails concerning job applications and chat to friends and family online until 2am.

Then write some stuff on my blog.

Do you see any time for me to do any serious Mandarin study???? I'm hoping that in time I will settle properly into my flat, and I will have completed all of the forms and queued in all of the offices as required. Then perhaps I can study. I might also hire my maid to come more frequently, to make sure that I can cook more often at home, and spend less time preparing my own meals. Certainly don't want to eat out any more often - whilst it's convenient, it's really unhealthy.