Lately, I can't remember what America is
like. I guess it is half way through the study abroad, but I feel like I
have been living in China for years. I would give anything to eat an
extra cheesy large pizza with onion and pineapple and garlic on top. I
could talk all day about food from my foggy memory of America, and often
times our conversations revolve around this topic. The food isn't too
bad here, they have really good donuts - which is like bread cooked with
a little bit of sugar and salt sprinkled on top. However the other day I
was eating on and found a piece of hair cooked into the middle and
wrapped around the entire donut. It was gross. They have the weirdest
flavor chips here. One flavor was cheese and sea salt - which left a
strangely sweet and bitter after taste in your mouth for hours! It was
SOOOOOOOOO gross until about 2 days ago when I was so hungry that they
become one of the best foods I've ever had. Anyway, point is I miss the
delicious food of home.
This week has been pretty chill, we went into Shanghai
for church on Sunday, but other than that we have mostly been hanging
around the campus and going places nearby. Sunday was fast Sunday and a
lady got up to bear her testimony and in the middle invited our BYU
group to her house to have dinner with her afterwards. It was pretty
awkward, but we went over and she made us spaghetti and salad and bread.
It was so good! On Monday the Bridgewaters invited us over to their new
apartment to have FHE and they ordered 6 large Papa John Pizzas for
everyone. They only got BBQ chicken and pepperoni, so I ate the BBQ
chicken because I was so starving! It was a fun family night, they gave
us prizes for the Amazing Race activity and we played Mafia which was
fun.
Our group in our free time is really big into
playing games. One day we didn't have anything to do, so about 8 of us
went to one of the canteens in between meal times and we played some
card games. One game that we played was spoons. By the time we went
through one round there was, no joke, 11 middle aged Chinese canteen
workers watching us. They were having such a fun time watching us jump
over each other to grab spoons. They were arguing with each other about
what the rules were and stuff, some even played with us, it was a fun
time! We have taken to playing games on subways, buses, planes, in
classrooms, cafeterias, anywhere really.
We are leaving tomorrow morning for Hangzhu city for
the weekend. This past week has gone by so fast, I can't believe that
are pretty much half way through July (ish)! I love China and I am
having so much fun! I love the activities that we are doing and I love
the people that I am with, I'm still not sure that I love molecule
biology, but it's worth it!
Hope everything at home is going well! Eat some Ole
Ole fajitas for me! (and some Jacaranda pizza and garlic rolls, and the
baked ziti, chocolate chip cookies, and cupcakes)
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