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As someone so graciously pointed out, my last blog post was mainly about food, so I’ll try not to do that this time; which is honestly a challenge for me. It’s not that all I do is eat, but in my mind, what’s more interesting (ok, and what is easiest) to talk about than food? Nothing. With that said, my first story is about food.

Last Thursday Angie came over for our weekly lunch date. You remember, or maybe not, that I had cooked her an American lunch the week before that, so this time it was her turn to cook me a Chinese meal. By the way, there was only one submission for the ‘rename meatloaf’ challenge. Therefore, the winner is….Heather and her “unsloppy Josephine”. Congratulations. Your prize is that you get to be my teammate for another 2 ½ months. Yay!!! Ok, back to Angie. So we met at 2pm to go shopping for our meal and then she came over after her class and we began cooking. We made green beans and pork, and potatoes. Everything tasted great but we had a little trouble with the potatoes. The idea was to cut up some hot peppers and some jalapenos to make the potatoes a little spicy. So, the wok was heated up with oil and then she dropped in the peppers. Immediately smoke flew out of the pan and filled the kitchen. Normally this would be fine and I would just open a window, but this was pepper smoke. This instantly singed my nose hairs and filled my lungs with pepper- ouch. I opened the windows and the front door but nothing helped. We spent the next 10 minutes cooking food and choking/coughing. Overall it tasted great, but needless to say I will never use those little red peppers again.

Just for the sake of honesty- I am currently using this blog as a way to avoid doing things such as laundry, plan lessons, clean my house, etc. Obviously this blog will have to end at some point, but, not if I type really really really slow…

So, Tuesday was a holiday here- tomb sweeping day- and that meant that we got Monday off as well. But, Monday’s classes were moved to Saturday…weird. Anyway, we taught a new class on Monday, which was to non-English majors. We said we would help out for a few weeks. Day one- things went fine.

On Sunday all of the girls of IECS came to Langfang for a girl’s weekend. We sent Andy to Baoding so they could have their guy’s weekend. Technically it wasn’t a weekend because it lasted from Sunday night to Tuesday afternoon, but who cares. Our ‘weekend’ was super busy and packed with things to do from the time we woke up until we went to sleep. The adventures included games, sharing stories, singing, dancing, eating, exercising, and visiting the orphanage. I had a great time but am physically in a lot of pain. Theresa led us in morning exercises on Monday and I am still feeling it. I think I’m going to need hip replacement surgery after this- that or something less dramatic, I haven’t decided yet. It was nice to wake up and get moving but it was painfully obvious how long it has been since I’ve done lunges…

I have a lot to do today so I’ll end it here and leave you with the latest food picture. It is a green vegetable dish- I’m not sure what the name of the vegetable is in English because I don’t remember seeing it in America, but when it’s whole it looks like elongated lettuce. So you take that, chop it up, and I guess fry it up with some garlic and oil and voila. It is quite tasty.

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