Hanging Out in Beijing

Yesterday was finally a nice relaxing day. In the morning I helped the boys rearrange their apartment. I can’t wait till I have my own apartment and can do the same. I’m really looking forward to decorating and making it mine and Hannah’s. Every place I’ve lived in during the last four years, I either couldn’t decorate/rearrange or didn’t live there long enough to make it worth the effort. For lunch we went to a place that had free wireless and American food. Thanks to everyone who sent me e-mails! It’s so much more fun to find e-mails from friends and family than junk mail. After lunch, Sarah, Hannah and I went grocery shopping. On the way there, we pasted a bunch of vendors on the street selling puppies. They were sooo cute! But Hannah keeps telling me that I can’t buy one for our apartment. She also said no pet crickets either. They sell those on the street here too. I might just have to settle for a fish. I love going to foreign grocery stores because you just never know what you’ll find there. Favorite finds but not necessarily purchases: dried seaweed, grapes that were green but had purple ends (for when you can’t decide if you want green or purple), kiwi-aloe yogurt (yum!), cantaloupe gum and coffee flavored gum. And that was all just from a quick trip! More to come later. I spent the rest of the afternoon reading in the air-conditioned dorm. In the evening we went to play games at the apartment of the head of the foreign language department at one of the schools we teach at. It sounds kind of like a scary title but they were very nice people (and from the States) and it was lots of fun. I was dead tired when we got back to the apartment at 11pm but I finally slept in till 9 this morning! Yeah for a full night of sleep! Maybe I’m finally over this jetlag thing.