Day 8 – June 5th
Woke up at 6 for some ungodly reason… Began working on the powerpoint presentation for our class on American Summer Fun, Got a text from Yasmina for breakfast. We hit up the noodle shop from before and got the same thing. It was delicious. I really wish this rain would go away but apparently it’s been like a drought lately so the rain is welcomed at the same time.
My new teaching partner for the summer vacation class, Brandon, came by around noon. I learned that he is Jason’s older brother who also went to our school. He studied Economics and ASLC, an interesting combination to say the least. He also reads manga, which is really interesting, I certainly didn’t expect that to be a common interest but then again I hardly expect much from people besides decency. At least I try to.
Anyway we finished up the powerpoint with minutes to spare when we realized we probably can’t use some of the videos. The videos would have just been a nice extra to add onto the lecture but everyone seemed at the least vaguely interested. I may have talked too quickly again but this was in excitement to talk about vacationing. People seemed interested in the wooden roller coaster the Beast. I think they were really concerned for their safety on such a ride.
We had to switch classes with Drew who was also switched up/left on his own because Yasmina had to go to her job stuff. Apparently it went okay, which is better than nothing.
After the classes we answered a few questions about ourselves then we were let out early enough to catch some of Drew’s class. He ended up teaching about drugs, going by definition included coffee. The students seemed really interested and surprised. They brought up some questions about just how accurate some movie depictions/stereotypes are of the drug culture like alcohol and also asked what the best tasting drug is. I have to say hands down would be alcohol and the effects so long as you aren’t abusing it can be made minor.
We then went out for a hot pot dinner at the Little Sheep. We had chicken feet, duck intestines/sausage, bean sprouts, noodles, spinach, collard greens, fried corn and sprinkles, and numerous other things. We drank sprite, coke, and plum juice, which was all really delicious. Plum is now a favorite juice of mine.
The hot pot was split into 2 parts: a spicy and a non-spicy part. I think it was towards the end that I could feel the spicy. It was really good. We also had like… these krill/shrimp burgers? In the sense that you mash something together and then cook it up. We dumped bits of the shrimp stuff into the hot pot andthen we were able to eat some within seconds.
We also had a lot of beef and some other meat, which was all just great. I don’t think I have eaten that much meat before coming to China. Honestly that was more meat than I have had in a week. Can’t say that the chicken feet had much meat too it. The duck intestines were really chewy and when you nomm’d on ‘em it sounded really crunchy in your mouth. It was really odd for me so I didn’t eat too much of it.
We also had a lot of beef and some other meat, which was all just great. I don’t think I have eaten that much meat before coming to China. Honestly that was more meat than I have had in a week. Can’t say that the chicken feet had much meat too it. The duck intestines were really chewy and when you nomm’d on ‘em it sounded really crunchy in your mouth. It was really odd for me so I didn’t eat too much of it.
Another part of the restaurant is to make your own sauces. I put chives, kawemisaky sauce, spicy beef sauce, and garlic into mine. I should have added more of the spicy sauce but oh well. In general it was similar to Fire and Ice.
After we finished eating we began playing a number game. The point of the game was to not guess the actual number. Guessing the number landed you a punishment. It is similar to truth or dare. I had to go sing Row Your Boat to a random couple in the restaurant and take a picture with someone like they were family. Drew was asked personal questions by the entire group (10 people total), some were innocent fun and the others were … fun and hilarious. Like which girl do you like the most for ____. He ended up using it for study partner.
After doing a couple of rounds of this we played Sheep! Everyone’s faces are really sore I am sure. The game went on for a long time and I decided to cut it to the mini game we would play at the end of Waah!
After doing a couple of rounds of this we played Sheep! Everyone’s faces are really sore I am sure. The game went on for a long time and I decided to cut it to the mini game we would play at the end of Waah!
After finishing that game we exchanged emails and took tons of pictures. It was so nice.
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