This morning I went running with Nancy and then left her to get breakfast on her own because I have fruit and milk at home that I have to use up before leaving for a week and two days.
Classes went okay today. Nothing super special or note worthy, just good. But just wait until Friday July 4th. I now have 2 packages of stuff for that lesson so watch out, it's going to be hot!
At lunch break we went to Tzu Chi College. It was different then the other times because they had a professor from another university come and teach us a little bit about Chinese calligraphy. It was fun because we got to practice and learned the form and everything. You have to keep your shoulder relaxed while your arm is parallel to the desk. Your wrist needs to be vertical while your fingers need to make a goose. The funniest thing about the positions was that they really expected you to be able to relax your shoulder while your arm was in such a weird position. Mine didn't turn out horribly, but I didn't grab any of them so I don't have any proof. I guess that's kind of good, because it would just turn into clutter.
My afternoon lesson was on hula-hoops and there's not much information that you can share about hula-hoops, so there was a lot of time to explain and play different games using hula-hoops. Unfortunately the school only owns 4 hula-hoops and there are more then 20 kids in each afternoon class. Eh, it worked out though.
After school I wanted to have Yuling help me translate more of my itinerary for the trip, but she was talking to a parent and I didn't want to interrupt so I spent a half hour on the playground playing with the kids before I had to go tutor.
I had to hurry after tutoring because we were meeting with a group of students from Hualien University for dinner. Luckily the girl that Nancy tutors from 8-9pm called to cancel right before we left, so we didn't just have to eat and run. We went to a place where they have hot pots (I'm not sure if that's what it translates to in English or if the Chinese name sounds like "hot pot"). I got a sea food one and it was okay, but it's not as good as Kaylene makes it out to be. I'd seen Nancy and Kaylene eat the shrimp before, but I haven't ordered anything yet that had the whole shrimp in it, so today when there was one in my soup, I was sacred about how to eat it in front of everyone. I turned to Nancy and asked her what to do and everyone saw me holding it with my chopsticks and said, "Oh, you don't know how to eat it? Do it like this, take off the head, and the legs, and peel this (the skin) off." I did it, but felt stupid as I struggled. It was a good shrimp, but maybe not worth the effort. I guess I'll just have to practice more and it won't be any effort at all :o)
After dinner they took us downtown to show us around. Eric was so cute. He would try to stop and point things out to us, but since Nancy and I have been down town so much, we would finish his thought and he'd be so impressed. He told us that he felt like he wasn't useful because we already knew what everything was. I guess he thought that he was supposed to be our tour guide or something. All we really wanted was some friends to eat dinner with. After everyone left Nancy and I stayed down town to do a little shopping. We each bought 2 shirts and then decided it was time that we took Ronald's scooter back to him.
We filled up Ronald's tank with gas and then went to our night market. Ronald was super busy and so we had to sit and wait. I had a headache that kept getting worse and worse so I told Nancy she could stay but I had to go. That didn't work, I ended up staying. But, Ronald was acting like a butt and so at 10pm I told Nancy we should leave. She reminded me that we still hadn't gotten an answer to a question we'd asked and so I stayed. But, by the time it was 11pm and he still hadn't answered and my head was still throbbing, I finally did just leave. And seeing as it's 11:45pm now and she's still not back, I'm really glad that I left her there.
I really meant to take pictures with the University students tonight, but I forgot to whip out my camera. So, sorry that there are no pictures for this post :o(
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Slacker! j/k I bring my camera so many places & hardly ever take it out. Usually I give it to Josh if I want anything done with it b/c he'll remember. So yeah, several out of town trips where all I remember to take pics is int he car on our way there or back. Oh well. Love ya! Have a good day. I hope you're totally karaoke-ing it up right now. Don't be lame like me (stage fright to the extreme - I couldn't even do it in front of just Josh's family at his house)!
Looking forward to your next adventure and PICTURES, PICTURES, PICTURES! Days off could have been used for down loading pictures which are worth a thousand words. Glad you got a lot accomplished.
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