I'm trying to blog right now, but my mind is on the cockroach that is hiding somewhere in my room. Nancy and I got home, I sat down on my computer, then looked up and saw a cockroach on my door. I freaked out and Nancy came in. I thought she was going to kill it, but she's more scared then me. She chased it under my wardrobe. We moved it, but it won't come out. We shined a light, but it won't come out. We turned on the hair dryer and blew air at it, but it won't come out. We stuck a big stick under there, but it won't come out. I know you're thinking that it's not there anymore, but we didn't see it run anywhere else. Sick! I wish I knew where it was. I have to go to sleep soon but I'll be going to sleep knowing that there's a cockroach in my room.
Anyway....my day..... I went running, but because Nancy and I only got 4 plus hours of sleep, we were both really sore this morning. Once I started running I felt better, but Nancy still hurt (don't worry, I hurt again whenever I stopped running). For breakfast I was felt like stopping off at the breakfast place on the way home and ordering a thick crepe with an egg. One time we went there and pointed to a picture and that's what we got, so I thought that I could just point to the same picture. I did point to the same picture, but I actually got what was in the picture this time. It was a lot of food, and I'm sure that it was really good, but because it took so long to make, I just had to scarf it down without really tasting it. Not tasting it is a real shame because I'm never going to get it again. It turns out that what I ordered was $ 80 NT. To put things in perspective, the most I usually spend on breakfast is $40NT and that includes a drink, I most definitely did not get a drink this morning. And, to further put it into perspective, I usually think that $70NT for dinner is pricey (since we just go to a night market, of course if we ever ate at a restaurant it'd be more).
My middle lesson was pretty rockin'. I taught about bubbles and then the kids did bubble art where I mixed paint, water, and dish soap together, gave the kids straws, let them blow bubbles and then they pressed a paper against the bubbles to pop them and leave a mark. The kids all blew too hard and so at the end they all had spreckles of color on their faces (and it was all over the tables) but because it was mostly soap anyways, it wasn't hard to get off. The other funny thing about the lesson was that the 3 years olds were able to do it perfectly, the 4 years olds were next and they struggled with it, and by the time the 5 years olds came in, only three of them could even get a bubble mark on their paper. I must have done the perfect mixture in the first class and not done as well for the others. Oooops... sorry 5 years olds.
At lunch time we went out with Ronald. I don't know how this ended up happening, but apparently one of the times Nancy went to get juice on her own her and Ronald decided that we should all go out to lunch before Nancy leaves. He got his Dad's car and took us downtown to a restaurant. He said that he'd never been there but that he'd wanted to go. The menus were all in Chinese so we told Ronald to order something and we'd eat it. Wow, whatever he ordered came with a lot of food. There was obviously a small bowl of rice, then there was a fancy bowl with two kinds of raw fish. I couldn't tell you what it was, I just know that is was pink, it was chewy, it was cold, and it was most definitely raw. On another serving dish was a spicy dish with some other kind of fish and vegetables. Then there was a plate of more fish and vegetables in a different sauce. There was a small plate of pig skin (it's really rubbery) and a small plate of pig leg (just a bunch of fat to chew on). Oh yeah, there was also a bowl of ice with chunks of slippery white fish in it. This fish was also raw and it was so hard to pick up with plastic chopsticks that they had to bring us wooden ones so that we could get a better grip. (But it's not just Nancy and I that had difficulties, it really was hard and even Ronald used wooden chopsticks.) Then there was soup that had crunchy, yet chewy, chunks of white fish. Don't worry, there was dessert too. They brought out a small bowl of some type of fish pudding-ish stuff (it looked like apple sauce, but darker). I tried it and passed it on, I was not going to eat it. I took one bite of the soup and chose not to eat it, but that was because I was full and didn't want to waste filling my stomach with something that wasn't good. The fish dessert I chose not to eat because it was gross. But for dessert they also had a small bowl of regular pudding that was Mmmmm, so good. Dang shoot, I totally forgot to mention that the drink they gave us was a vegetable and fish drink. Believe it or not, the drink was pretty good, pretty sweet, and not salty. I was pretty proud of myself for exploring that lunch, and it turned out to be pretty good. Oh yeah, I guess that I should mention that the restaurant was all about the sun fish and so I think that most of the fish we had was some part of the sun fish? Maybe?
I taught about soccer in my afternoon class, and so for the last 15 minutes the kids played soccer. Even though I didn't play with them or anything, that lesson made me so tired. I had to be the referee, and I had to wrangle all the kids into playing, and I was so beat by the end.
Nancy and I tried to go shopping again tonight after our tutoring was done, but the market we went to was closing most of their shops. Nancy found a shirt, but I didn't find anything at all. Then we went to the juice stand to talk to Ronald. We had to, he paid for lunch, it's not like we could just not go and say hi to him. I usually try to go into the back and help out somehow, but he always freaks out and won't let me do anything. Today he was so busy that he asked me if I would help him cut the watermelon. So Nancy finally got a taste of what it feels like to be board at the juice stand and I got to keep myself entertained by cutting watermelon. Apparently I'm not that good at it, but I cut two large watermelons and I did much better on the second then I did the first, so if he keeps on letting me help out, I'll be a pro watermelon cutter by time I come home. Ronald said he'd give me a free juice if I helped him out, so when I finished he gave Nancy and I both a watermelon juice that he had made for someone else who never came back to pick it up. I teased him and said, "wait, I do all the work and Nancy gets a free juice?" Yeah, pretty much, that's how it worked :o) At 10:20pm I told Nancy it was time to go because we never leave there at a decent hour and it's starting to take its affect on our bodies (remember that we were sore this morning?). But on the way home we stopped by the fruit stand because we're out of fresh fruit at home. Nancy's boyfriend there gave us a small bag of orange watermelon for free. He handed it to us, told us it was good, and then made sure that we lived in the same house (please note the he speaks NO English and so he communicated in short Chinese phrases and hand gestures) so that he only had to give us one bag to share. That was nice. We had just gotten free watermelon juice and then took a short trip down the road and got free watermelon. The watermelon's in the fridge, but I hope it's as good as he told us it was :o)
Yeah, so then we left and got home pretty early, but then because we had the roach fiasco, that sucked up a little bit of time. I acually took pictures today, but I'll have to post them later because I'm tired and also, most of them are on Nancy's camera.
Anyway....my day..... I went running, but because Nancy and I only got 4 plus hours of sleep, we were both really sore this morning. Once I started running I felt better, but Nancy still hurt (don't worry, I hurt again whenever I stopped running). For breakfast I was felt like stopping off at the breakfast place on the way home and ordering a thick crepe with an egg. One time we went there and pointed to a picture and that's what we got, so I thought that I could just point to the same picture. I did point to the same picture, but I actually got what was in the picture this time. It was a lot of food, and I'm sure that it was really good, but because it took so long to make, I just had to scarf it down without really tasting it. Not tasting it is a real shame because I'm never going to get it again. It turns out that what I ordered was $ 80 NT. To put things in perspective, the most I usually spend on breakfast is $40NT and that includes a drink, I most definitely did not get a drink this morning. And, to further put it into perspective, I usually think that $70NT for dinner is pricey (since we just go to a night market, of course if we ever ate at a restaurant it'd be more).
My middle lesson was pretty rockin'. I taught about bubbles and then the kids did bubble art where I mixed paint, water, and dish soap together, gave the kids straws, let them blow bubbles and then they pressed a paper against the bubbles to pop them and leave a mark. The kids all blew too hard and so at the end they all had spreckles of color on their faces (and it was all over the tables) but because it was mostly soap anyways, it wasn't hard to get off. The other funny thing about the lesson was that the 3 years olds were able to do it perfectly, the 4 years olds were next and they struggled with it, and by the time the 5 years olds came in, only three of them could even get a bubble mark on their paper. I must have done the perfect mixture in the first class and not done as well for the others. Oooops... sorry 5 years olds.
At lunch time we went out with Ronald. I don't know how this ended up happening, but apparently one of the times Nancy went to get juice on her own her and Ronald decided that we should all go out to lunch before Nancy leaves. He got his Dad's car and took us downtown to a restaurant. He said that he'd never been there but that he'd wanted to go. The menus were all in Chinese so we told Ronald to order something and we'd eat it. Wow, whatever he ordered came with a lot of food. There was obviously a small bowl of rice, then there was a fancy bowl with two kinds of raw fish. I couldn't tell you what it was, I just know that is was pink, it was chewy, it was cold, and it was most definitely raw. On another serving dish was a spicy dish with some other kind of fish and vegetables. Then there was a plate of more fish and vegetables in a different sauce. There was a small plate of pig skin (it's really rubbery) and a small plate of pig leg (just a bunch of fat to chew on). Oh yeah, there was also a bowl of ice with chunks of slippery white fish in it. This fish was also raw and it was so hard to pick up with plastic chopsticks that they had to bring us wooden ones so that we could get a better grip. (But it's not just Nancy and I that had difficulties, it really was hard and even Ronald used wooden chopsticks.) Then there was soup that had crunchy, yet chewy, chunks of white fish. Don't worry, there was dessert too. They brought out a small bowl of some type of fish pudding-ish stuff (it looked like apple sauce, but darker). I tried it and passed it on, I was not going to eat it. I took one bite of the soup and chose not to eat it, but that was because I was full and didn't want to waste filling my stomach with something that wasn't good. The fish dessert I chose not to eat because it was gross. But for dessert they also had a small bowl of regular pudding that was Mmmmm, so good. Dang shoot, I totally forgot to mention that the drink they gave us was a vegetable and fish drink. Believe it or not, the drink was pretty good, pretty sweet, and not salty. I was pretty proud of myself for exploring that lunch, and it turned out to be pretty good. Oh yeah, I guess that I should mention that the restaurant was all about the sun fish and so I think that most of the fish we had was some part of the sun fish? Maybe?
I taught about soccer in my afternoon class, and so for the last 15 minutes the kids played soccer. Even though I didn't play with them or anything, that lesson made me so tired. I had to be the referee, and I had to wrangle all the kids into playing, and I was so beat by the end.
Nancy and I tried to go shopping again tonight after our tutoring was done, but the market we went to was closing most of their shops. Nancy found a shirt, but I didn't find anything at all. Then we went to the juice stand to talk to Ronald. We had to, he paid for lunch, it's not like we could just not go and say hi to him. I usually try to go into the back and help out somehow, but he always freaks out and won't let me do anything. Today he was so busy that he asked me if I would help him cut the watermelon. So Nancy finally got a taste of what it feels like to be board at the juice stand and I got to keep myself entertained by cutting watermelon. Apparently I'm not that good at it, but I cut two large watermelons and I did much better on the second then I did the first, so if he keeps on letting me help out, I'll be a pro watermelon cutter by time I come home. Ronald said he'd give me a free juice if I helped him out, so when I finished he gave Nancy and I both a watermelon juice that he had made for someone else who never came back to pick it up. I teased him and said, "wait, I do all the work and Nancy gets a free juice?" Yeah, pretty much, that's how it worked :o) At 10:20pm I told Nancy it was time to go because we never leave there at a decent hour and it's starting to take its affect on our bodies (remember that we were sore this morning?). But on the way home we stopped by the fruit stand because we're out of fresh fruit at home. Nancy's boyfriend there gave us a small bag of orange watermelon for free. He handed it to us, told us it was good, and then made sure that we lived in the same house (please note the he speaks NO English and so he communicated in short Chinese phrases and hand gestures) so that he only had to give us one bag to share. That was nice. We had just gotten free watermelon juice and then took a short trip down the road and got free watermelon. The watermelon's in the fridge, but I hope it's as good as he told us it was :o)
Yeah, so then we left and got home pretty early, but then because we had the roach fiasco, that sucked up a little bit of time. I acually took pictures today, but I'll have to post them later because I'm tired and also, most of them are on Nancy's camera.
This is Ronald, he doesn't smile because his eyes will disappear.
This is Nancy and I on a bridge outside the restraunt.
Nancy has the picture of all the food and has yet to give it to me.
3 comments:
Hey girl: You better slow down a bit. I also want a healthy grand daughter comming home. I will e-mail you about your trip later. Thanks for the card and letter.
Love ya
You knew there would be coakroaches when you took the job!
I'm to tired to read every word, but I have to tell you. Surf BOARD, but when you having nothing to do you are BORED. I posted some new blogs, not half as impressive or VERBOSE as yours, but feel free to check em out. Love you.
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