I don't know what's gotten into me. I'm making another post so soon! All of us teachers from the U.S. hang out with each other quite a bit but I mostly hang out with just two of the teachers; Miriam and Natalie. We just like to do our own thing. And we all like to be lazy together. On Saturday we just sat around and did nothing and ate junk food and watched movies. Well I shouldn't say "we" because I went to the music store on campus and got lessons set up! I have guzheng lessons every Thursday from 6:30-7:30 PM and Saturday from 2:00-3:00 PM. I also bought these finger picks I needed. I tape them to my fingers and I use them to pluck the strings of the guzheng. After that I went into downtown Xiangtan with my Chinese friend named Dennis (just his English name I don't even know his Chinese name) and Ryan (one of the other teachers) and we played basketball. I'm so out of shape and it was SOOOOOO HOT yesterday. And extremely humid. Although NJ is almost as humid as it is here in Xiangtan I got used to dry weather while I was out at Idaho. So I played for maybe 30 minutes in total. Then Ryan had to fax a document so we found a place that would do it and then we had dinner with Dennis' parents and his parents' friends. The food was pretty good except for the chicken. They literally cut up a whole chicken and put it in a bowl with different vegatables and spices. They pulled the head out right in front of me. Then there was another dish that had all the organs from that chicken. But the other stuff was good. They had beef, pork and a couple of dishes of vegatables. I was exhausted after that so we went home.
Tonight is going to be way good though! Me, Miriam, and Natalie went out and bought chicken breasts, corn, potatoes, fruit, and some spices and flour and we're going to make fried chicken tonight! It's actually going to be a feast because we invited a lot of people over. It's going to be very tasty! I can't wait!
Supposedly internet went into our apartments yesterday but the wireless network they installed was only up for like 5 minutes then it went back down and it hasn't reappeared since then. Oh well. My question is though why would they set up a wireless network if NONE of the computers they installed for us have a wireless card? Apparently it was easier to install a wireless network instead of dealing with cables. China will be China.
I'll post again once I get back from my guzheng lessons to let you all know how it went! Love you all!
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That sounds like an adventure. I am happy that you are having fun out there. I hope the lessons are going well on the Gunzing(?). It looks fun. Maybe at the next family reunion we can have a talent show and you can show us all your amazing talent! :)
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