Twice in One Week, What Even?

Today I am going to go visit Yanan. Unfortunately, the donut shop closed down because rent was getting too high, so Yanan had to find another job, and I no longer get to eat donuts every two weeks or so. Now she works in a shopping mall department store selling expensive imported men's shoes from Italy or France or something--Pierre Cardin? It's good for her because she now has coworkers, when before she was often in the donut store alone. (Wow Molly, you are right about my sentence structure being all crazy). One thing I learned from working at Camille's Sandwich Shop in Pittsburgh, is that crappy jobs are ten times crappier when you are there all alone, and actually kind of fun when you have crazy people working next to you.

Last time I visited Yanan at her new job, I got to hang out with the new coworkers too. They couldn't believe I was using my left hand to write characters, and then they told me I held the pen wrong. Well lately I have been practicing writing holding the pen the way they told me to. It's not only more comfortable, but the ink flows better out of my pen. Weird! Here is a strange thing: Chinese people are always shocked by left-handed people because almost no one in China uses their left hand to write. But after the initial shock they will always say, oh but left handed people are very smart. Well if your culture thinks left handed people are smart, why make all kids write with their right hands? Yao? Anyone?

This week is midterms (bleehhhh), and then next week we go to Chengdu in Sichuan for a week. I owe you guys a picture blog--hopefully I'll have some good ones from Chengdu!

Love,
Jen