Fun=Rice

Hello Hello,
Dear Readers its me Katherine. Sooo not too much going on today but starting tomorrow the next four days will be really fun and interesting!! This morning we spend our second of three lectures with an awful professor( of course we have three lectures with the only bad teacher). We learned about moving people out of resisted positions with one finger/two fingers/ one hand/two hands. It was not very interesting and he got off topic alot! I also have been walking around all day with a massive knot in my left calf due to climbing an obscene amount of stairs yesterday- which I do not regret because it was the best adventure as of yet. Rachel learned last night that the word rice in chinese is fun. She asked what does fun mean in chinese and was met with the response "fun is rice" This was pretty funny and ironic. then rachel proceded to make up jokes- there is alot of fun in this country- we have fun with every meal- would you like a big bowl of fun or a small bowl of fun etc. With each day we become a little more out of it english wise from talking with everyone and adding chinese words to our vocabulary which causes alot to be funnier than it really should be!

For lunch we got to experience the school's cafeteria. They had a buffet in the middle. You put as much food as you want and then they weighed your food and charged you by how heavy it was. They had chicken nuggets!!! Then we went to clinical. One of the coaches for Tae Kwon Do was the gold medal olympic winner in 2004 and he signed both rachel and I's Polos!!! He also said Rachel was cute :) Our teacher and father figure who tags along on all our trips also signed our other sleeve jokingly! He is great and his two girls are funny (they come along too) this time I had wu shu! It was the best so far. There are three kinds; regular tai chi, tai chi with weapons, and a faster punching kicking kind. The fastest was my favorite but a little scary as they kept yelling really loudly and one of the guy's scream sounded like "DEATH!" Towards the end of the practice our buddy Eric taught us how to spin the long staff around. Our friend Pat even quickly taught himself how to do an aerial. That is a handstand without hands!!!



Next we had pizza hut for dinner and fried chicken!!! Some normal food but I ate way too much. Then straight off to "yoga" none of us wanted to go and the instructor put on upbeat pop music. Needless to say we were all dancing while in our poses. She thought we were bored so decided to change the lesson to an aerobic dance which was really fun! We also had some freestyle dance time which was pretty funny- complete with the sprinkler, shopping cart, fishing, q-tip, washing dishes and all the wierd stupid dance moves one can think of.

After dance class Rachel went off to the gym for play time and came back some time later with huge rips on her hands-ouch! I went back to start my final paper, which has luckily been reduced to 3 pages! Which I still didn't start, oops. Once I got back joyce and a few other students had brought traditional ink and brushes to do caligraphy. I learned how to write my name in Chinese and then our hotel desk man who apparently is a master wrote it wayyyy better!

The next adventure was laundry. Which is surprsingly cheap if you can get away with one load and splitting the drier with someone like i did. Damp clothes but hey air does wonders overnight. 8 am wake up call and busy day at the National Judo Championship and Night Market tomorrow! Goodnight and see you soon!