Everyday Life

As I am writing my latest blog posts, trying to keep up with the everyday adventures…let me just tell you about my surroundings, giving you a little glimpse of what everyday life is like…

I am chasing this salamander thing around my room! Haha…I don’t really know what it is, and I don’t want to know. I’m going to say that it is a friendly salamander! I’ve noticed them around my hostel. I’m just glad it looks like a salamander and not a spider or cockroach! I know I look ridiculous chasing this thing, so I’m glad no one is here to see me.

I can smell the Clorox that is used to clean EVERYTHING! The cleaning ladies for our hostel clean everything at least twice a day! Because of the Swine Flu, everyone here is extremely health conscious. It is not uncommon to see people wearing surgical masks.

I’m sitting on my “bed”, typing on my laptop, enjoying the breeze of the fan I bought last week, and listening to Mulan on my computer. I’m not really watching it, since I’m writing this blog post. I felt like Mulan was very Asian inspired…

I’m drinking hot Forest Fruit Tea. There is a hot water heater on every hostel floor and the students here use hot water for everything! For tea, for noodles…since you can’t drink the tap water here, lots of students put the hot water in water bottles and wait for it to cool and then drink the water.

It’s the everyday things like “salamanders” in my hostel, or eating rice all the time, or praising the Lord for the invention of air conditioning, or walking into the bathroom in the morning and being greeted by the cutest 5 foot floor mates who half awake say “good morning, Sarah”! It’s being greeted by the coolest hostel security guard on campus, Bing Bing, who every time I go for a run says, “Oo Sarah you are so very Fit”. It is all of these little things that aren’t major adventures, but significant pieces of everyday life that make up the entire experience!