We had our first language practicum yesterday, an exercise in which we go on location to practice certain vocabulary and grammar. In this case, we went to a restaurant together, all 18 of us. I feel like the waiter ran out of patience about 3 minutes into the whole thing. I can't really blame her, I would be annoyed if a bunch of kids were trying to instruct me in garbled Chinese. Thankfully, we all had a great time, as shown in the photos below.
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| Baozi, a common dish, but this one was served fried and with a very sweet dipping sauce, so it tasted like donuts |
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| Very good tofu. Interesting note, tofu and meat are often found in the same dish here, unlike the US, where tofu and meat almost never exist together. |
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| Fried noodles with herbs and peppers, very delicious. |
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| The same octopus dish from the other night, still great. |
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| Well, this was a pork dish, clearly I didn't get my camera out before we finished it off. |
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| A chicken dish, it tasted like chicken, but amazing. |
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| This is definitely not something you'd see in the US, eggs and tomato in a sweet sauce. Awesome. |
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| Class can't be taught. |
So the air hasn't been particularly good as of late. It got up to 418 the other morning, which is quite bad. As such, they have given us all some face masks to wear, seen below.
If you like not very closely you'll be able to see that it's really just a piece of cloth that has no real purifying properties. Worry not, however, as I plan on buying a real, effective mask in the coming days. Until then, I'll stay inside.
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