Thursday, July 17, 2008

Hello! My Name is Inigo Montoya. You killed my father. Prepare to die.

Ni hao. 你好
I just had an incredible day.
In the morning, one of my students brought me "bean juice" to try... took me awhile to figure out it's soy milk with no sugar or flavoring. Also, my class held a meeting afterwards to decide where to take me to dinner. After ten minutes of listening to them argue for their choices in Chinese, I excused myself to catch the bus back to the hotel for lunch.
After class this afternoon, a group of 10 of my students took me and another teacher to a restaurant. They ordered about 14 different dishes for us to share.


I tried DUCK (鸭子), SEAWEED (海草), FROG (青蛙), and a FISH (鱼) with it's head still there.
The frog was actually way spicy, so I had to eat a whole bowl of rice to calm my tingling mouth.
The students were sweet, and it was SO fun. :o)

Rick taught the students how to make music with the rims of their glasses, so we had a symphony of wine glass whistlers and the waiters thought we were crazy!

Then we got back to campus just in time for "Movie Night". They were showing six different movies in diferent classrooms, and I got to watch "The Princess Bride" through the eyes of 50 people who had never seen it. I laughed out loud, and was terrified to the shrieking eels like I'd never seen them before. Also, I got to watch it with English subtitles, so I finally figured out some of the stuff Andre the Giant was saying that I could never make out. ;o)
Also got to see 300 Chinese students trying baseball for the first time on an Olypic sized field last night... what a sight!
Good night, Wuhan University. Good morning, Ohio.

1 comment:

Jeanne said...

frog legs!?! you are so brave!