This is a picture of my family taken last October at our house. It has nothing to do with anything, except that the holidays are a time to be with your family, and since I won't be with them, looking at this picture makes me happy. Maybe it'll make you happy, too. Or maybe you'll just think I'm strange, but that's okay too.
This morning, I blew a fuse...for the second time since Saturday. I mean literally blew a fuse, as in my electricity went out. I think that makes four times in the last six weeks. China sure is fun!
Saturday night, Liz came over for a slumber party! That's right, 23-year-old girls still have sleepovers. We watched It Happened One Night and half of Little Women. Halfway through Little Women, at 9:30 p.m., is when the electricity went out. Thankfully, it was fixed by 10:15. In the summer, it wouldn't matter much, but it gets pretty cold pretty quickly with no heat. Sunday morning, we finished watching Little Women and then went to the grocery store and to lunch at our favorite potato place. I think I've written about it before--it's sort of like mashed potatoes fried with cabbage, bean sprouts, cilantro, and who knows what else. It sounds a little funky, but it's amazingly good, and lunch for both of us costs 4 yuan.
At the grocery store, I found dinner rolls! There's not much bread in China, so that was pretty exciting. The rolls they had out on the shelves had black seeds on them, and China is just not a good place to take chances with stuff like that, so I successfully told the woman that I wanted rolls without black seeds and asked if they had any. It went like this: "You meiyou zhe-guh? Wo yao zhe-guh, huh wo buyao zhe-guh." It translates: "Do you have this? I want this, but I don't want this." I don't know the word for rolls or seeds or without, so I had to make do. She understood me! And they did have plain rolls! After that victory, Liz and I bought Coke and Kit-Kats and milk and crackers and left to go to lunch.
While we were at lunch, I put the milk and crackers in my shoulder bag so that the grocery bag wouldn't be so heavy. The bagger put two liters of milk, two cans of coke, two Kit-Kats, two packages of crackers, and one bag of twelve rolls into one plastic bag. Anyway, after lunch, we took the bus home, and right as we were walking through the gate onto campus, I realized that I'd grabbed my shoulder bag but left the bag with the rolls at the restaurant. Since it would have taken another 45 minutes to an hour to go back and get it and come home, I didn't bother, but it was kind of sad. I am really missing those Kit-Kats...
Finally, I finished writing the exams that I have to turn in today! Two more weeks of class, two weeks of finals, and school is OVER! Well, until March anyway.
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