Ready, Set, Study!

This morning, for some God awful reason, I got up 8:15.  I don't know why, because I went to bed past midnight last night, but my body just doesn't cooperate sometimes.  It is rather annoying. I felt a little crappy this morning when I woke up. My throat was as dry as a desert, and it was sore. My head hurt as well, which is never a good sign. I couldn't seem to wake up, but I dragged myself out of bed, pulled on some other clothes, grabbed a kuai, and headed out the door. I had to go to school to get my back pack so I could do homework, and the sooner the better. I needed a kuai to get on the bus, and although I am pretty sure I looked (and felt) like I was about to keel over from exhaustion, I got on the bus. And the right bus, even.

There was a lot of construction going on on the gate of my school, but I got through and went up 6 flights, which should be against the law on a Saturday. All of the juniors were taking the PSAT, which is a requirement, so I felt bad for them as I viewed the door behind which they were all locked. I had to take the jing jiang rou si (pork) from the day before out of Chris's locker, because I am just that good of a friend. I also had to put his jacket into his locker, because I forgot to give it back to him last night before he got out of the taxi.

Of course, as soon as I grabbed the pork, the juice spilled all over my hand and onto the floor. So I spent 5 minutes grabbing toilet paper from the bathroom, and cleaning it up, before grabbing my own stuff out of my locker, and heading back down the stairs.  Even then, I still didn't feel awake or good. That was my first clue that I should just go home and get back in bed. The bus ride went quickly on the way home, and in no time at all I was back home.  

As soon as I got home, I turned on Skype, and called my parents, after putting one of my im's on hold.  It was nice to talk to my parents again, and catch up, because it has ben about a week since I last called them. I was almost starting to think that I was a proper adult, and we can't have that now, can we?  Everyone needs a little dose of their parents every now and then.  I may have given them the wrong idea about how I am doing right now (which is busy, and slightly sick) but I guess lying never got anyone anywhere, so what the hell.

For the rest of the afternoon, I studied Chinese. At least, I did until lunch time. At lunch, my mom made noodles, and this sauce thing that you put over the noodles. It was pretty good, a lot like this eggplant thing we had at my aunts house. I mostly really like the food I get here. I'm definitely not starved, that is for sure. I still didn't feel very good during lunch though, so I didn't talk my and ate slow, which may have made my mom a little concerned.

After lunch, I just felt even worse. So I put studying on hold for the moment, and started to watch a movie. It took me about 30 minutes to find a good one, and finally decided on Iron Man, which really is excellent. It was about a 2 hour movie, maybe a little over. I felt bad about watching it, but I was feeling sick, and feeling like I need a little self applied TLC.  So it was necessary. The only annoying part was that at the very end, it cut off the last 15 minutes. I can deal with that though, because I have already decided that I have to buy it, so that problem can be remedied quickly.

It actually took me most of the afternoon to watch Iron Man,  because I kept stopping it to do other things. For example, at one point, I stopped so I could read the passage from my Chinese book out loud to the my sister, so she could correct my tones, in preparation for my midterm on Monday.  And I busted out my history for a while, but quickly got bored of that.  By the time I actually got to the "end" it was about 5 o clock. 

When my mom came home from wherever she had been, her, my sister and I all went out to dinner at a restaurant around the corner from our house (my dad is in another province at a university reunion and isn't coming home until tomorrow night.) I didn't really feel like eating dinner (sick, remember?) but we went to a place where you order food, and then cook it up in a little individual soup thing. The whole thing is called huo guo, I believe.  It is pretty cool. You order meat and vegetables and noodles, and then just pick it out of boiling water and eat it.  

However cool it was, the bad boiled meat didn't help my stomach problems, and when my mom started getting worried that I wasn't eating enough, I explained to her that I have felt sick all day.  She stopped forcing food on me after that.  Although she did look a little worried about me.  After we all finished eating, we had to wait about 20 more minutes for more sweet potato bing things to come out for us, which were actually really good. They are these lightly fried pancake like things with red bean paste in the middle, and pretty delicious.

On our walk back home, I told my mom that as soon as we got home, I was going to take a shower, and then get into bed, because I don't feel well. And that exactly what I have done. I am sitting in bed, listening to Sugar and Spice by the Searchers right now, and writing in my blog, which I have been doing for about 30 minutes now. I am tired, and my head and stomach hurt now, so I am going to go to bed. Today was really not that interesting, I am sorry. Sometimes I just have these kinds of days.  Tomorrow probably won't be much better.  Until then.