Well, it's happened… This meager little blog has had over 2000 page views. Wa-hoo!!
I went to see Thor 2 in the theaters here in Shaoxing last night. We had a group of about 8 going, and it was a good time. We got a deal on tickets because we had a group so big, and I got popcorn and a soda because, why not? The popcorn was sweet. Sorta like kettle corn… The movie was in 3D, so we got some pretty awesome glasses… that we had to give back. Shooot. The movie was in English, obviously, and had chinese subtitles. The thing about going to a movie where most of the audience has to read the words is that you can make a fair amount of noise and no one cares. Now, chinese people tend to make a lot of noise to begin with, spend time on their phones, and take pics/videos in the theater anyway, but it was still an oddity for me. As for the movie, it was awesome!! I definitely would suggest it.
In other news, we are planning our Thanksgiving menu. We're doing dinner Thursday at a Chinese house with some other foreigners. Then, doing our own meal for lunch on Saturday with our own Chinese friends. The food planned includes chicken, rice, steamed corn/carrots, green bean casserole, stuffing, fried cauliflower, and mashed potatoes. This seems pretty standard… and it is, until you realize that canned vegetables don't exist in China. Nor does stuffing in a box. So, we'll be making it from scratch. Which doesn't seem to be too large an undertaking at this point…. but we could very well be overestimating our skills and underestimating the task at hand. I'll let you know how it turns out.
Today, at school, there was an English competition. About 60 4-6 year olds got up in front of six foreign teachers, three from my kindergarten and three from the big campus, to perform either a song or a story in English. Some of them looked nearly terrified, some were cute, some were rather good, some not so much… But I couldn't get over how they make the kids do this, and it starts in Kindergarten. It only gets worse from there… I don't think I'll ever understand the China child raising / school standard mindset.
I think that about covers my life for the last few days. Nothing else new really going on here. Still biking everywhere, going to school everyday, living the China life.
Until next time.
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