Sunday was better. I got up relatively early while Kerry went to the kitty's vet appointment. It's a good thing I did because we got a package from Maureen at 10:05 am--salad fixings! Yay! And then the ePer market showed up. At 1:30 pm, we took a car with Christa and Roopa (Christa ordered the car) to the Pearl Tower for an Indonesian Festival. It was free. There was some dancing and lots of people selling processed food, but not much more than that. There was one Indonesian restaurant selling a curried meat, lemon rice, and cucumbers, as well as Indonesian spring rolls. That was probably the highlight for me. Of course, though, it was raining, and we had to get out of the rain. So we ended up going to Starbucks at the Pearl Tower and having some good conversations about travel and how people are treated in different countries. It's fascinating to talk to people from India and The Netherlands at length. Such different perspectives! Christa had a Chinese woman sitting next to us take some pictures. Christa speaks Chinese quite well, so she was able to talk to the woman quite a bit--turns out, she was from Mongolia. The woman was so nice, she gave us apples. That's not something that would every happen in the USA--giving strangers you meet in a coffee shop apples. We got another car quickly and came home.
The rest of the evening, I graded Midterms and worked on my presentation for NNU. We had pork chops for dinner (that Kerry made--my right heel is hurting quite a bit).
Chinese lesson tomorrow.
From the Indonesian Festival:
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| Posing with a (man?) in an Indonesian costume. |
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| (left to right): Roopa, Christa, Kerry, me. |
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| These are the apples that the Chinese lady next to us at Starbucks gave us, after taking our pictures. That's a picture from Christa's camera (of us) on the table. |
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