From age 8 to 18 I had a series of exactly three best friends. In the last two weeks two out of the three got married, and the third one is now engaged. I was about to begin some kind of crisis-laden self/life reevaluation... but then instead I didn't.
My favorite friend here so far is a Chinese girl named Ada Lui. This was a little weird for me at first because the pronunciation is eerily close to my grandmother's name - Aida Lou.
Anyway, so last night Ada and I decided to go for massages, China Style. Which means leaving the house around 10pm, stoping for an unplanned $4 shampoo/haircut because Ada thinks the place looks cute, then around 11:30pm we finally embark on what turned into my strangest massage experience to date. The two guys that gave us our $9, 60min full-body massages spent the entire time trying/failing to talk to us in English, which resulted in Ada and I constantly wracked by fits of laughter. Afterward they fed us free dumplings. Oh, and we were forcedpriviledged to wear some absolutely stunning sheep pajamas that for some reason said "cheese" and "mouse" on them:
We came out of the experience sore but happy, and with an unbinding verbal agreement to teach one of the masseuses English in exchange for Kung Fu lessons (he trained at Shao Lin temple since like age 6.)
Oh and look what I spotted on the bus last week!
it was a nice touch of home on my commute to work.
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1. Chris Colwell (anonymous), Sep 6, 2009 9:26:42 AM #
hey sis! great to read how things are going. I don't know why i always read blogs from top to botom... cultural programing i suppose. it makes for an odd temporal progression. I love reading your perspective. i think ahnna and i laughed at least once for every entry. I miss you! i think ahnna and i will be heading to south korea to teach as soon as we can get positions (probably after the newyear). if we get the chance we'll come up and you can show us around shanghai. well, i'm off to explore colorado. Love you lots!