My eyes were a little better today, but they
still hurt some. I guess it is
working. I started working on some Power
Points for my new Primary calling (that is how we teach music and songs in this
virtual Branch), when Gilbert came over.
He wanted to show us some pictures he had of places we should go see
when we are in Hong Kong. I still had my
PPT up that I was working on and he was interested in the pictures I was putting
in. He asked if I could send him the
link. David told him we can’t because of
the restrictions we have places on us about religion, so Gilbert leaned over
and said, “lds.org.” He still doesn’t
quite understand why the government puts up the restrictions, but he
understands what we have to do to keep our position here, so he was okay after
he said that. We also had to discuss my
eye problem, that I’m not getting the right vitamins: more carrots…
After lunch, we caught the bus and met
Kathy Gao and her son, Hansen. She took
us to a place where we could get foot massages.
She had purchased a package to 48 massages and she is sharing them with
the BYU teachers. We first soaked our
feet in some Chinese herbal medicine, I assume it was like a foot soak to draw
out the poisons in the body. While our
feet were soaking, they gave us neck and upper back massages. That felt so good, but he had to work hard to
get some of the knots out of my neck and upper back.
After soaking for about 15 minutes, they
had us move to a couch that was opposite the stool we had been sitting on and
the work on the feet began! For the next
45 minutes, our feet and lower legs were rubbed and twisted and made to feel so
good. I almost could have fallen asleep
except for the fact that some of the areas on my feet are so painful from the
neuropathy in them that it was hard to take it.
My feet need this though!
We made a quick trip to the grocery store
after that and then hurried home but we had to leave again in a half an hour. Two of David’s students, Ashley and Adam, wanted
to take us out to dinner at a more traditional “hot pot” restaurant. I don’t think this type of restaurant would
be allowed anywhere in the US, but they love them here. The other hot pot restaurants we have been to
have used a hotplate, either individual ones, or just one big community pot on the
table, but this one has a cone shaped center with charcoal burning in the
middle of it. I kept thinking that in
the US, the possibility of a lawsuit if you touched that thing were just too
great to allow it, but maybe in my own small world, I have just never
encountered it there.
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| Our hosts for tonight; Ashley and Adam. The big copper thing in the middle is the hot pot. The cone if filled with charcoal and the water surrounds it. When the waiters see that a certain amount of heat has been reached, they change one cone for a different one. You can hardly take a picture of a Chinese without the "peace" sign popping up. |
We had a nice meal. Some of the foods that we placed in the hot
water to cook were: tofu, mutton, beef, mushrooms, rice noodles, wheat noodles,
cabbage, lettuce, parsley, kelp and tripe.
The tripe was chewy, of course. Ashley
didn’t want to tell me what it was thinking that I wouldn’t even want to try
it, but I’ve had tripe when I was a child, thanks to my mother, so I didn’t
have a problem with it. We had a nice
visit and then we had to get home by seven, so that David could tutor
Alan.
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