I was feeling pretty down yesterday with the beginnings of a cold, so after a cup of nescafe that tasted not unlike gasoline I hunkered down and got through class best I could. It was a struggle.
After class and time with language partner (I know her name now too!), We headed out to dinner with Brandon and his language partner (still don't know HER name...). Unfortunately my mouth was still sore from where I had too aggressively flossed the day before so hard chunks of meat really didn't help my situation much. That being said it was a lot of fun! We all had chicken and just had to tell the cook "no", "a little", or "a lot" referring to spice. After dinner I gathered some supplies for my room and my poor mouth: salt, sugar, and tea. I was eventually successful, but not before I had spent 30 minutes casing a convenience store trying to find the salt that was in tiny little bags below the cooking oil. That, and tea is only loose here...Which means without a tea ball, things were about to get interesting.
Our room does have a working kettle, so the warm salt water was easy. The tea required some ingenuity I must have inherited from my parents...Them being engineers and all. After many different ideas I ended up making a coffee filter out of papery toilet paper (from a new roll!). It worked! But I chuckled the entire time it was straining.
After class and time with language partner (I know her name now too!), We headed out to dinner with Brandon and his language partner (still don't know HER name...). Unfortunately my mouth was still sore from where I had too aggressively flossed the day before so hard chunks of meat really didn't help my situation much. That being said it was a lot of fun! We all had chicken and just had to tell the cook "no", "a little", or "a lot" referring to spice. After dinner I gathered some supplies for my room and my poor mouth: salt, sugar, and tea. I was eventually successful, but not before I had spent 30 minutes casing a convenience store trying to find the salt that was in tiny little bags below the cooking oil. That, and tea is only loose here...Which means without a tea ball, things were about to get interesting.
Our room does have a working kettle, so the warm salt water was easy. The tea required some ingenuity I must have inherited from my parents...Them being engineers and all. After many different ideas I ended up making a coffee filter out of papery toilet paper (from a new roll!). It worked! But I chuckled the entire time it was straining.
Today was far more interesting. While I started off still feeling sick as a dog, 张老师 (Teacher Zhang) noticed and went easy on me. After Reading/Writing in the mo
After class I took a nap in the lunch break, and read some of my THIRD book of the trip, Odd Thomas. This was followed by a meditation where I fell asleep (I'm sure of it this time!) and studying with 韩晓康 (My language partner). I was ready to head back to my dorm and go back to sleep, but Kyongnam asked if I was interested in hotpot so...韩晓康 and I joined him and his partner across town at this really crazy hotpot place. We ate so much I'm still stuffed! The hotpot was insanely spicy though so we all took larger breathers and gulps of orange juice between bites. Somehow Kyongnam's partner won a set of soup bowls with the receipt? Still not sure about that one...
rning is Speaking/Listening. Our teacher came in today offering us what looked to be roti, an Indian buttery bread treat and I had never been more happy to see it. I pulled off a big chunk and while it smelled a little funny...I popped it into my mouth. Hey Emma, you remember the white fish salsa days? As soon as I had filled my mouth with buttery goodness our teacher told us what it really was:fish jerky. I couldn't spit it out, so I chewed, and chewed, and chewed...And it was the most potent thing I've ever eaten. If Dad ever pays us to eat fish oil pills, I know I got it down.After class I took a nap in the lunch break, and read some of my THIRD book of the trip, Odd Thomas. This was followed by a meditation where I fell asleep (I'm sure of it this time!) and studying with 韩晓康 (My language partner). I was ready to head back to my dorm and go back to sleep, but Kyongnam asked if I was interested in hotpot so...韩晓康 and I joined him and his partner across town at this really crazy hotpot place. We ate so much I'm still stuffed! The hotpot was insanely spicy though so we all took larger breathers and gulps of orange juice between bites. Somehow Kyongnam's partner won a set of soup bowls with the receipt? Still not sure about that one...
Kyongnam pictured
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