Life is Good

Day 9
Man is my life good. How often do you just think about your blessings and just how good we have it. Today, I did just that. I did absolutely nothing until 5pm. I watched my pirated Seinfeld DVD’s, which has all of the seasons on 4 discs, shaved, sat around, talked to someone awesome on skype, and just relaxed as much as possible. awesome. It was also another beautiful day, and ventured out around 5 to get some more photos, this time with my newly bought 100 yuan ($15) tripod to capture some cliché photos of the city. For dinner I ordered some kinda fish, dumplings, and some rice. It is so difficult to make people understand that I can’t speak their language! The waitresses asked tons of questions about what I wanted, pointing to words and writing some down….so I just nodded and grunted and made noises like, “Wah, Hah, Huh, Yah.” That’s basically my Chinese, and it is working so far. I tried ordering some simple tea (cha), and they had no idea what I was talking about. I look around and see other people with their tea pots and I just point and grunt. No good. They bring me a Budweiser glass filled with tea leaves and hot water. thanks. The fish typically was the entire fish, head and all. It was good except that it tasted and looked as if they reached down into the tank, pulled out the fish and then just made 5 cuts and then put it on a plate and then put it in front of me. The taste was just about as fine cuisine as if you were to dunk your head into some sea water and then drink. tasty. The dumplings were good, but the orange slices stole the show. My life is pretty good. Good family, good friends, good school, good area, just good good good. Tonight was good, cuz my meal would probably have costed about 21.39 US dollars. 37 Yuan…$5.