My birthday typhoon was so crazy! It rained for 24 hours from Monday morning until Tuesday morning. Because of the typhoon, my birthday lasted almost all week. Hee hee.
Monday after previous post: Watched a silly movie. Maybe Runaway Bride. I forget. We’ve watched many silly movies. OH! No, it was Kate & Leopold- very cute. Met Lydia, Becki’s Chinese teacher, for dinner. Went to the Hundred Jiaozi Restaurant. So very good! There was a funny teapot that was… well… I’ll post a picture later. Lydia spent the night.
A not-so-little teapot. That spout is several feet long! Then there was the rather busy tea…
Tuesday: Lady came over to give pedicures. Got $10 pedicure. Mmmmm. Happy feet. I made lunch and Lydia learned quesadilla, tortilla and taco. Lunch was visual aids. Jessi, one of Becki’s new roommates, came home. For dinner we had an invitation to Kim & Patrick’s place. Patrick made an incredibly yummy marinade for the chicken wings and an equally yummy salad dressing. Then they taught me a really fun game called Settlers of Catan. It was a really great night! As soon as we got home there was a huge electrical storm.
Wednesday: Rode to school again. Worked on Becki’s classroom. Rode to Cybermart. Becki bought ethernet card for Jessi’s laptop and wireless router for apartment. I bargained for and bought an mp3 player. I even asked in Chinese if they had the one I liked in 256 meg instead of the 128 on display. I was pretty proud of myself. My Chinese is finally working again now that I’m leaving. Met Jenn, Amanda(Chinese) and Grace for hot pot dinner. The Chinese girls came over for ice cream and Phase 10.
Thursday: Did absolutely nothing most of the day. Watched Zoolander. Fell asleep. Got another Chinese massage. Yay! Met Grace at the real Uighur restaurant for dinner. So glad I got to hang out with Grace one last time.
At our local Uighur restaurant. So good!
Friday: Woke up to Jessi making french toast. Mmmmmmm! Then Becki’s dad called and said he got clobbered on the head at Coco’s by a sugar packet attack from my dad. Now we’re getting ready to take the shuttle to Beijing, where we’ll stay for a few days until my flight on Sunday.
I will be incommunicado until I land at LAX. At that point my phone will switch back to America (I have China Mobile at the moment).
Goodbye, TJ. I’ll be back in Upland Sunday night.
