Blaahhhhhhhh I'm so siiick. I havent gotten better, I should probably be taking it easier. I always plan to go to bed early but then end up doing something because I'm in Shanghai, but its been two weeks I've been sick now and I need to chill a bit.
It's been fun, though. The apartment where I live is huge, and we have a funny older woman who cooks and cleans for us who we call IE. She speaks no English so we're on pretty good terms, as the only things I know how to say to her are 'hello' and 'very good', and that makes for a pretty polite base for a relationship. We've had a bunch of funny little interactions, like when she started pointing at her phone over and over and speaking in Chinese, and so I pulled out mine hesitantly, thinking "does she want me to call someone or..?" Then she went over and pointed to the washing machine and I was just totally lost, and to this day I have no clue what she was trying to say. But she's funny and makes great food and apparently has some cool grandkids.
I've had a surprising amount of downtime; when we're not exploring outside or trying to teach tomorrow's international students anything but curse words, we're just kinda lounging around. We've seen a lot of movies (two of which are totally two of my favourites, y'all need to watch The Greatest Showman and Her) and I've already read two books, one of which is Flowers for Algrenon, which I'll talk about at length how it is far more depressing than it needs to be. I'll probably start the Handmaid's Tale soon, even though Margret Atwood stole from my friends store that one time (shoutout to Anna)
Yeah. Thankfully we got a new teacher the other day to start teaching more math and science-based things, so I can take a bit of a break from my physically based classes and get some rest before I die from whatever this persistent sickness is.
It's actually crazy that I've almost been here for a month already, I still feel like a complete noob and that I wouldn't last 5 minutes outside the apartment by myself. But babysteps. I still got a long ways to go.
Ok, let's make it clear that Margaret Atwood is not a thief, I just forgot to charge her for something once and she was super nice about the whole situation. 😄
ReplyDeleteAhahaha oh Anna, I hope she sees this blog post somehow and sees that people now think she's a thief
DeleteThis is probably actually Margaret trying to defend herself. Nice try Margaret.
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