Hot (辣 – la4) and Spicy Red Pepper #Snickers Bars 😳😱😨😭🙀💀. . . . . There’s something just evil in that. It’s wrong. Dark-side esque Destroying the fine reputation of a delicious treat🍫. A sacrilege of the great ambrosia beloved by the gods. A travesty to #chocolate!!!
Chinese Spring Festival🐉 . . . when all of China turns into gryffindor 🦁 house and red and gold colors 🇨🇳 rule.
I think Walmart might be secretly connected to Chinese hogwarts. Walk inside and its gryffindor pride
everywhere.
*Personally, I’m a slytherin – which fits, since my Chinese zodiac Animal is the snake 🐍
When temperatures hit -32C (about -25F), the inside of my pantry window turns into #art!
No, but seriously, I have about an inch of #ice INSIDE my window. My refrigerator pantry turned into a walk-in freezer. All my #fruit froze 😭❄️
😂😂😂 #chibi #panda!! Couldn’t help myself, he was very fun to draw even if he isn’t very well drawn. But he makes me happy!😊😍
Adventures in Medical China😷!!!
Had to go to the #Chinese #dentist yesterday with my mom after she lost half a tooth🤒. One of the hardest parts about being an #expat or living abroad is dealing with medical issues🤕. They speak no English. . . you can’t speak to them. Figuring out appointments, instructions, explaining sensitivity idsues, allergies . . . . is all very complex. 😭
So I called my school🏢 cause they are supposed to help. Three hours later, they gave me the phone number📞 of a guy who spoke no English (not helpful❌).
As all good foreign laoshi (#teacher) do, I went to my students👧👦. Several immediately responded with offers to help. One girl👧 found a really good hospital (Jilin University School of Stomalogy🏥) that had a #School of Dentistry. Another girl 👧called them and asked about the English. She warned them we were coming & got me the address. #Didi (China’s #Uber) 🚗 got us to the hospital, and one the other students👦 stood by his phone to be a #translator.
Luckily, the hospital 🏥 was EXCELLENT. The registration guide girl 👧 helped us book a teacher and got us the medical card. In China, you get a membership card when you visit the #hospital. That card has all your medical history, so if you go somewhere else, they just check the card to see your past. Very easy.
Went to the VIP office and waited. They found a dentistry student 👨 working there who had studied in #Maryland 🇺🇸 for a year, and he helped translate. Helpful & Good looking – Happy Days! 😛
Got an X-ray that took about 20 minutes. Went back and watched #Cdramas (Chinese soap operas)📺 while we waited. Saw the Doctor💉 after about 2 hours, he recommended a root canal and did the first part. We go back 3 more times in the next 3 weeks. 📅 His bedside manner was great!
All in all, thanks to my Awesome students and the very professional &
helpful staff at the hospital. . . It was a relatively painless!!🎉🎉
Total Cost: $206
Membership Card (for VIP service with a Professor doctor): $4
X-Ray: $2
Root Canal: $100
Crown: $100
SO CHEAP!!!🤑
Looks like a mushroom. Acts like a mushroom. Is a Bread Roll. Silly food. . . . Wearing camoflauge like he’s some sort of super food warrior!
One of the daily issues of life in #China is that they don’t clean the Eggs before you get them. So you gotta get the poop off before you can stick ’em in the fridge. These Eggs actually came from #Walmart and were in a real #Egg cart😮 Usually you gotta pick ’em out of a giant pile by hand 😺
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First ever #homemade #pizza!!!! Made from scratch and pretty impressive if I say so myself. #China does not seem to believe in pizza #sauce since none of their pizza have much if any. They have a tendency to just throw #cheese on the dough without. So, tonight (to celebrate end of the #semester), I decided to try at a REAL (Okay, fairly recognizable) pizza-ish pizza! Came out yummy!🍕
For the Inner #rabbit in us all. This was one of the #veggie dishes served the other night. Just lettuce and #Chinese chives and cucumbers. Actually nice to see Veggies after being stuck with fast Food for a while 😜 This is the closest China really gets to salad…
We’re still a little stumped by this one. About 8 #cigarette holders were on the table, filled with water and #nosmoking signs🚭.
Ok, I get the ‘no smoking’ 🚭. . . . but then why put out 8 cigarette holders🚬 at all??? If to SAY no smoking, wouldn’t one do the job?😂
They took up a lot of table space, and we were all just rather perplexed 😜
“She was free in her wildness. She was a wanderess, a drop of free water. She belonged to no man and to no city” ~ Roman Payne
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