Monday morning, I found my way to the hospital to meet with Dr. Tricia and the orthopedic surgeon. The office was super busy, so she gave me a chair to sit on while I waited for her. They have an office that all the doctors in her department and all the doctors in the respiratory department on that floor meet in. It was pretty noisy. When she finally had time to get the orthopedic doctor to come, he looked at the x-rays. Fortunately there is no broken bone! Really relieved to hear that. There was still a lot of pain though, so he said I should get a brace, use an anti-inflammatory cream and also get some shock wave therapy for it.
By the time this was decided, the physical therapy department (where I needed to go for the shock wave treatment) was closed for lunch, so I wouldn't be able to have it done until they opened up again at 1:30 p.m. Dr. Tricia went down to the cafeteria in the hospital and brought up some lunch for us to eat in her office. One of the containers that she had brought up was a very, very spicy dish. I don't do hot and spicy. I took one bite and my mouth was burning. I told her I couldn't eat any more of it. She gave me the other dish that was not so spicy and when she had eaten a little more than half of the spicy dish, declared that she couldn't eat any more of it because it was too spicy for her also.
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| My companion for the next few weeks. It does help with the pain. The doctor just said to go to a sporting goods store to find one, but we would need someone along with us that speaks Chinese to help us. We called up Andrew and let him know what I needed. Andrew found one online for 48 RMB (about $7.25) and brought it on Friday when it came. It does help with the pain and keeps it stabilized. |
Football
In our classes this week, we have been showing the students about American football. We have a power point that explains about football and how much a part of our culture it is. Then we play a game with two teams, where they have to answer questions about the power point. We have a team captain who asks a question. When someone wants to try and answer the question, the captain throws the toy football (we brought a couple of them over with us so that we could play this game) to the person and then they answer the question when they catch the ball. Then we have a very short football field that we have drawn on the chalkboard and "move the ball" down the field. It has been a great hit in our classes. Some of the boys want to try and play a flag football game, so they have arranged a time to play on the "playground," purchased on the internet a regular football, and let other students who are interested in playing know the time and location. We will see how that goes on Wednesday.
"Go My Son"
David has been teaching some volunteers from some of his classes to sing the song, Go My Son. He has been able to get four or five from most of his classes to come and learn the song and the hand motions. We have had practices, in the afternoon and evening at different times all week long. On Thursday, the day we have classes in classrooms next to each other, he invited my class in so that we could listen to them sing. They have had fun with it. We had a practice tonight for the class that will be singing on Monday in class. They said they have practiced and sang it so much that their roommate, who is not in the class, has told them they can't sing it in the dorm anymore! They still want to sing it.
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| A group of David's students practicing "Go My Son." |
Two dinners
Kim and Alan Malan, the supervisors from BYU that run the China Teacher's Program, came this week to check on how we were doing and also go to some of the classes of the teachers. They didn't go to any of our classes, but they did go meet with the Foreign Languages Department heads. We were informed at lunch that we were invited to have dinner with Kang Ming and another Chinese English teacher and the Malan's that evening. They ordered a LOT of food and when not all of it was eaten, they bagged it up and gave it to us so that it wasn't wasted. Shrimp dumplings are wonderful!
Thursday evening, we had arranged to have the Malan's and the other BYU teachers from SDNU come for a dinner at our campus. Eva had helped us order the private room and order the dishes. They all exclaimed over the choices to say how pleased they were with the food. We had a fun visit also. One more time, we take most of the leftovers home with us.
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| Some of the food left over from our meal with the Malan's and the other BYU teachers. That soup was super delicious! |
Dinner with Bob and Anna
Saturday, David and I spent most of the day in our apartment getting some assignments graded. It was kind of a cold day and we didn't care to go out. We did get a call from Bob and Anna and they wanted to come over and bring us some apples. They also wanted to practice their English. We sat and talked for about two and a half hours. They invited us to come eat dinner with them, so we since we had eaten most of the leftovers from the dinners this week, we said we would go.
They took us to a restaurant that does Hot Pot the old fashioned way and Chinese BBQ. We had a fun visit and then walked to a place that makes what they call, "Fried Yogurt." It is pretty much flash frozen yogurt and it tastes pretty good. It is frozen so hard that it takes quite a while for it to soften. Otherwise it is pretty crispy.
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| Bob and Anna and the traditional Hot Pot. There are coals under the water part to keep the water boiling. |
Very excited for this coming week because... THEY TURN ON THE HEAT ON WEDNESDAY!!!
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