It will not rain here until the next chance of it. I do not know when that will be. This morning I had watermelon, nuts and yogurt for breakfast. I have to other parts of the watermelon in the fridge on the frisbee, It was the only thing that was large enough to fit the melon on it.
I went to work at 800 and worked with Yulan this morning. It was good. She explained many things to me or tried to and I filled in the pieces. Tonight instead of swimming I am going to dinner with Wendy and some others. They are celebrating his graduation. Hopefully it will not prove to be a mistake. I will work out in my room at 400 if all goes right and then shower and go to dinner at 600 I need to be sure not to fall into the no activity trap. It is bad for me and the AQI is terrible today which makes it more likely for me to fall into that trap.
Lunch was goodish, It was not as good as the duck yesterday.
This afternoon got better as it went along. I started out kind of depressed at the fact that the air was so bad. I have come to realize that when I feel stressed I am normally able to destress myself by running or swimming or being active. Here though I don’t have the ability to do that all the time because of the air. I thought about it and then though to myself, "you worked out in your room for the first week that the air was bad, so you can do that again and Madre gave you the no excuses log in and stuff so there will be variety. Also you have the ability to go to a pool and work out." I think I will be able to make this work for at least a few weeks.
I spent the afternoon doing a gel with Yulan and then watching her sterilize tobacco seeds. It was good, we talked about interesting things. She says that I have sensitive eyes, meaning that I am able to understand much without being told much. It took me a few times of her saying it for me to figure out what she was getting at. Also they must have said unique 20 times before I realized that is what they were trying to tell me. Sometimes the accents are very hard to understand.
Before I got to lab work we all took photos with Wendy and Pimpan they graduated with there doctorates today.
I did yoga, by myself. No videos just a timer on my computer. It was nice.
I rode over to the dinner on Mister Chi's bike, he rode on the back of Wendy's bike, kinda straddling the back of it. It must have hurt because he jumped off several times.
The dinner was pretty good. I do not see why they do not take the bones out of the fish though. It is very annoying to have to pick them about every single time. While ordering a mistake was made, I pointed to something wondering what it was and they thought that is what I wanted, so they ordered it. I continued to look through the menu and found what I wanted and then said I will have this. It led to a very confusing situation. Wendy tried to tell me something about it, I just got more and more confused.
They use a ton of garlic here and a ton of salt and vinegar. I do not know it my system will ever rid itself of the amount of both that I had. They put the food on a big turntable then just spun it when they wanted a new dish. It was very interesting, there is no scooping onto a plate, you eat from the main dish itself with your chopsticks. you also spun the food counterclockwise which is opposite of american ways. Overall it was good though. Mister Chi and Wendy left to go drink with some other peoples and me and the from the lab were left to talk. It was fun they asked me about things, Michel Jackson and moon walking, this led me to tell them about country dancing so I showed them the pretzel. They had heard me singing under my breath so they wanted me to sing. I sang on the walk home. they want me to bring my ukulele to the lab tomorrow and sing them songs.
Pimpan is packing to head home and she gave me Asian broth cubes for making soups. I may make some soups here. I have had lots of water melon today and it has been good. She asked me how I liked China after the dinner. I told her that everything about it is good, it is just that my method of working off stress is as described above and I can always do that here. I think that she understood.
I went in a talk to Ben after I got back. He has seen many things in the USA and knows a ton about just things, he was a roofing apprentice, a plumber... etc. He is a good guy I believe. I may go have lunch with him in the afternoon we will see.
Overall it has been a good day. I will go swimming tomorrow and then hopefully get the chance to hang out with peoples or make it to a super market as I need to buy bread and jelly and fruits.
The AQI has fallen as the day has gone by, we are 100 points lower right now then this morning. I think that it is because the wind started up.
watermelon frisbee
Th lab group
me and Wendy
me and Pimpon
Fish dish, It had bones
more fish
people and dinner
more dinner, the front three things were very good, and the suce that the fish was in was good except for the fish had bones.
the spice cubes that pimpan gave me, one is supposed to make soup with them
Headed to bed. Goodnight all who read and God Bless.
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