It's what I am eating for breakfast on this, my second day in Beijing. It's oddly tasty, especially for someone who isn't a huge fan of Yams.
Those three characters, with the exception of 红 (hong2 or 'Red'), took me over 25 minutes to decipher so I could figure out what the hell I was eating. Whatever, it's a victory. I figured out a system for deciphering some of the characters I don't understand or even recognize.
I've had a rough day yesterday. I spent over 4 hours walking around campus (which, by the way, is MASSIVE) trying to find the building where I can buy a meal card so I can access some of the scary/interesting looking food in the dining halls. There are like, 15 different dining halls, and all of them (except for separate restaurants, of which i've found 5) need the card because they don't take cash. I FINALLY got enough english out of someone to tell me that it was Building 15 (a dorm) that could dispense these, and that they opened at 2. It was noon at that point and I was starving. I went and bought pizza. It was good pizza, and for it +2 bottles of water I paid all of 11 bucks. Expensive here, cheap in Canada.
Then, I figured I would take a nap, because I was tired. I ended up waking up at 12:00am because Dustin was MSNing me repeatedly. I totally messed up that whole sleeping pattern thing and tried to force myself to sleep until morning. At 4:30am, I was woken up by continuous, rolling thunder and amazing lightning.
I've been up for 5 hours now. I'm hungry, but it's another 4 hours till I can get a card and I'm not eating pizza again.
Anyhow, who wants a tour of my living conditions? Everyone? I figured as much. Here are my 'digs', sans roommate who has yet to arrive.
My 'Kitchenette'. Consists of cupboards, microwave and sink. Pretty swanky.
My Bathroom. The shower and toilet/sink combo are all in a common cubicle. The shower drains through an open hole under the sink.
My Room. Yes it's a mess; I didn't have hangers until 5 minutes ago. Don't judge.
My room from the 'common area'. By common area, I mean a shared area the size of a washroom stall that has our two doors, the can and the kitchenette.
My Desk. The jeans in the bottom left are resting on the TV (with a whole ONE English channel). That orange bag is my 红薯干。Anyhow, till next time. I need to go find some chopsticks for my noodle cup.
再见！
再见！
2 comments:
ohoooo i caused you to awaken! 對不起， 下一次我讓你睡覺！！
deciphering characters? Is that possible? some characters look like.. what they mean, but simplified has lost a lot of the etenmology or whatever. you can decipher the pheonetics in Traditional characters really easily once you write and say enough.. haha.
man i find that the better i am at speaking, the more I forget how to write characters.. but i never actually forget them, like.. i look at the characters and just know the sound and everything, but when i write them out, its like.. brain lag sometimes.. just means one has to write often, and speak often. 哈哈哈所以我說你應該小心一點吧，離開北京以后你每天得寫字， 要不然你快要忘記怎么寫了。
Haha, it says i say you should be careful a little, after you leave beijing, you must write characters everyday, otherwise you are going to forget quickly ;)
have fun.!! ill tryt not to awaken you, lol!
wow, you're in china!
I honestly can't believe it...
I really liked your story about miming toilet paper. Don't worry, someday you and your therapist will laugh about that.
When do your classes and all that junk start?
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