David & Zina Cox: Day 104 – Homemaking Night

Day 104 – Homemaking Night

I had my two classes to teach this morning. Both went quite well. When I got to the room for the second class, the projector wouldn’t work. It has always been a difficult one to get working and I guess it just gave up the ghost (there’s an idiom to use in my next class…). My class monitor went to the technology person for the building and they just told us to switch to another room. We found one on the same floor that was available, but we had to kick all the kids out of it that were in there to study when we did so. They probably just went to our old room because they didn’t need the projector for studying.

After lunch, we decided that the only time we would have in the next few days to go to the grocery store was going to be this afternoon. Milk was going to be a necessity in by tomorrow anyway. We also wanted to ride the bus to the Carrefour store and see where it let us off. We caught bus 70 on the south side of campus and rode it for two stops and it let us off right in front of the store! Yay!! We got what we needed and wandered the store for a little bit so that we could familiarize ourselves with what they had and where things were. When we were ready to go back, we used the skywalk to get to the other side of the street and waited for the bus.

As we were waiting, Lily (Jin Li) came riding by on her bike. She was the one who helped us find the good haircut lady the other day. Lily lives in that area and knows where a baking store is that might have some of the things that we want and it would be closer than the one that Clarke’s took us to if they do. We didn’t have time to go with her right then, but now we know the area to go look and if she can’t take us, we will go explore!

David had a few of his class monitors come over that weren’t able to come last week and gave them each a memento from Lehi for their help. We had a quick supper and headed out for bus 16 so that we could get to the Hanlin Hotel by 6. We got off the bus just a few minutes before and we went to Sue and Steve Schauerhammer’s apartment. Nancy Pace and I were going to visit teach her and show her how to set up and run a blog. She had wanted to do that so that seemed the best way to do it.

At 6:30, we went to the Purnell’s apartment and had our “Homemaking Night.” Several of the Sisters wanted to know how Wendy did such a great job with her rolls that was always gorge ourselves on at Sunday Potluck, so she agreed to show us her tricks. We all had a great time and ate too much, again! We also celebrated Jim Purnell’s birthday. The men sat around and talked and ate, while we women learned and had a great time also. Kathy Gao came with Hansen and he liked all the food and she took extensive film of the whole process. When it was her turn to learn some of the methods, either Sue or I took over the camera. This was a fun evening and we hated to leave when we did, but we had to catch the last bus for the night back or take a taxi. The bus is cheaper and we were able to get THE last one for the night.