The last few weeks have been so busy! Actually, they haven’t been nearly as busy as my most hectic times in Provo, but my capacity for juggling a million things at once has diminished considerably since I stopped practicing the piano so much. Well, at all, really. I practice maybe a couple hours a week.
Where to begin? The weather finally got colder this week (though the high tomorrow is still 17 degrees, barely an autumnal chill in Utah). The leaves are all changing and falling; Nanjing has many wide, tree-lined streets, and lately they’ve been piling up with leaves. The street sweepers keep them mostly under control, however.
The branch here had a Thanksgiving dinner yesterday – we had several turkeys and basically everything else you could want for Thanksgiving, and it was wonderful. Seth and I were in the very back of the line, so we went for dessert first and then rejoined the food line. I got a slice of cheesecake, a mint brownie, a slice of raspberry pie, a slice of pumpkin pie, and a cookie. Overkill? Hardly. All 100 people there got more than enough to eat and there were leftovers, quite a feat for a potluck affair. After dinner, there was a talent show, the highlight of which was the China Horizons girls (here with an English teaching program) strapping glow sticks all over their bodies and faces and dancing in the dark to “I’m a Believer”! I think I’ll steal that idea for the next talent show I’m in.
Six of us went on a group date with some girls here teaching English last week; we made fajitas and went bowling. Fajitas were incredible after months of basically only rice and noodles! Our first game, we had a lane rivalry going; everyone was pretty terrible at bowling, though. I won overall with 121, which I wasn’t terribly proud of. I should go with Grandma Ida more if I ever get the chance. The second game, we drew a random M&M every bowl and did something crazy depending on the color – eyes closed, backwards, between the legs, kick the ball (that hurt!), and using your other hand. There were still three or four strikes, incredibly. For the last few balls, we all got up and danced in front of the person bowling to distract them.
I’m still behind on my schoolwork; I keep meaning to catch up, but it doesn’t seem to happen. Maybe tomorrow. Same story with my law school applications. I need to buckle down this week and get all those things taken care of.
I don’t really know what else to say – that’s the problem with waiting too long in between updates. Blogs are more manageable in bite-sized pieces. Hopefully my next post is a short update on how much homework I’ve done! I like the sound of that.
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