Best way to melt away the stress... date night! We haven't come close to hitting up all the awesome, new restaurants around Xiamen. We went to a place last night that was fantastic! It's called The House (so innovative) and it was the cutest... well, HOUSE. Great ambiance, awesome food (steak and salmon), and just a super get-away-from-it-all type of place. Massages afterwards weren't bad, either. Coworkers suggest a place closer to our house that supposedly does better massages for even cheaper than the $9/hour we paid last night. They're insisting that we can get 2 hours for $8 and that the massages are better! Well, it's China... anything is possible.
We just got home from dinner with some coworkers at a local Indian restaurant. At the dinner, a friend who has a Chinese roommate was telling us of how she was warned to be careful buying eggs in China because they might be fake. Hmmm... artificial eggs... I guess the Chinese are professional copy artists. It's seriously difficult to buy ANYTHING that is not a copy. When we go to the electronic malls, the only way we can ever tell that the electronics are fake is by reading the packaging that they come in. Everything will look almost perfect, and then you'll notice the tiniest of spelling/grammatical errors. Red flag! Not that knock-offs are usually bad, but it sucks to pay name brand price for something totally fake. I'm still not sold on the egg thing, though. All websites I've found seem to dispute whether that's true or a hoax. Sounds like an urban legend if I've ever heard one, but again... who knows.
So far the Swine Flu temperature taking each morning has turned up no interesting results... although many a Mercury thermometer has been broken (not in my class of course... 11th and 12th grade girls are way too responsible!) We have received several letters from the government saying that if two students from one class are ever confirmed to have H1N1 then that entire class must stay home. If 4 people in the whole school are found, then school gets cancelled for 2 weeks! I'm rooting for that one. Screw seasonal flu... bring on the piggies!
We finished filling buckets with water in preparation for the 96 hour water pressure outage this weekend. Can you believe that they can basically cut off water to a whole city? Why? China always wants to be the first or have the biggest and best, so they are working on a bullet train from Hong Kong to Shanghai. It will run through Xiamen. Our water lines are in the way and must be moved. (?!?) Anyway, I took my last shower and used the bathroom one last time before waving bye to water pressure. I hope our 4 buckets get us through the weekend!
Sorry, no pictures this blog... but here are some cool links!
http://edition.cnn.com/200
http://economicsandpolitic
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