Getting there..

Today I am feeling better, but my stomach is still bothering me. Our rainforest visit was moved to tomorrow to give us sickly ones another day to get better. Waking up this morning, we found out that Cindy is sick and class started at 10. We finished our movie and it was pretty good. Then we had a group assignment and chilled till lunch. People played volleyball again, but I am pretty sure my stomach would have killed me if I joined in this time. Recess today = checking my email and relaxing.

The rest of the day was fairly easy. Cindy came after lunch and we had more class time. Then I came back and napped before heading to dinner. I studied a little bit, skyped with Marc and Mallori, and checked up on everything back in America. Pretty easy day.

Tomorrow, the rainforest!!

Day 2

Waking up today was a little bit more rough. I attempted to sleep to my alarm, but the construction workers across the street decided that I was not allowed. Breakfast today included Pancakes though, which brightened my spirits! The first part of class was great- discussion time which included a "recess" where we played circle-volleyball for thirty minutes. It was a lot of fun and was the perfect race. Recess is a great idea!

After lunch we had a speaker come in that works on environmental management/research in Costa Rica. He was Australian, and with the echo in the room it was difficult to hear(I was sitting at the back). He talked a LOT about carbons, haha. After that we stayed late so that we won't have class on Saturday, and began a movie called "Stand and Deliver."

Next, we had dance class! :) We learned Merengue and Salsa. I know some Salsa already from ballroom, and I got a thumbs up from the teacher, haha. I think I want to take just a Salsa class, because it is definitely my favorite. For dinner we all went to a place called "Old West" that the hotel suggested to us. It took a while to get our food, but we all had a lot of fun and the food was amazing. One of the waitresses would take our names for our order, and then giggle. She was a lot of fun. The other waitress failed and was mean- but the other made up for it. Then we all came back and began reading for Friday's class. Tomorrow- Volcano!!!!!

Massages, Subtitles, and Cheese

Tuesday June 8, 2010

Class ended early today to get a massage! We tried a sketchy place first, but then they didn’t have enough people. We didn’t really mind. We ended up going to a different place and it was a lot nicer. We paid 30 kuai for an hour- which is not even 5 dollars. We might be going every week. It was my first massage, and it was wonderful despite the random tickles. I then did some laundry and went to Tea Ceremony class. The class was an exact repeat of last week. Apparently with each type of tea, we have the same lesson twice. Seeing as how I don’t like tea, and the repetition, I decided this class is the least relevant class to my life that I have ever taken. After class, I got some more ramen. My stomach is still weird and I have not been too hungry. Kayla found cheese flavored cheetos (I have only found meat flavor so far) and I got two bags. I have been craving cheese, especially cheesy crackers like no other. They don’t like cheese here- and things like goldfish and cheez-its don’t seem to exist. These Cheetos as saving my life. I am already halfway through my goldfish because of being sick. I got better for a few days, but think I may be getting worse again. We shall see.

Then we decided to watch Prince of Persia that Rachel bought at the DVD store yesterday. The movie is in Chinese with horrible English subtitles, and was difficult to understand, but funny. We guess the copyright laws are different and that’s why we could buy the Chinese version.

Movies and Muslim Chinese Food

Monday June 7, 2010

Today I was very tired in class. We had our Calligraphy class today, but we aren’t using the brush pens yet- just practicing characters with pencil and paper. For lunch, I tried Chinese Ramen Noodles and they weren’t bad. They have some weird looking flavors, but I think I got chicken. It tasted just like the ones at home.

Kayla, Justin, Rachel and I went to a Chinese DVD store. The DVDs are very cheap, just about a dollar. Kayla bought Dexter on DVD, so we will probably be watching that. After, we went and bought a hair straightener, and tried to find the restaurant that had the delicious food our teacher ordered for us. We couldn’t find it, but tried this hole in the wall muslim/kosher place. It ended up being really good and cost us each about 75 cents. There was a cat that kept rubbing up against our legs during the meal; it was very interesting. We stayed and talked for a while, then headed back and watched When in Rome that Kayla bought for 10 kuai, roughly $1.30. We were all tired and then went to bed. Rachel and I had trouble at first, realizing that we now go to bed at 10 and think nothing of it. Our usual bedtimes are 2 o’ clock am. I also thought that it was weird because I wake up at 6 everyday, when 8:30 used to be the death of me.