May 29th
I thought I'd get my hair cut one more time before we come home. My bangs were
getting too long and bothering me. I just needed a trim and shaping. How to do
convey that by pantomime? I wrote on a note card "just a trim" and I had a
Chinese student write it in Chinese. I should have had grave concerns when she
didn't know what "trim" meant. But she looked it up on her electronic dictionary
and a boy explained it to her. Apparently boys get trims.
I walked to my
beauty shop. There are beauty shops all over the place here - every other shop!
I showed them my card with the Chinese writing on it. And they questioned me -
in Chinese. That's never good. Then they wrote down, 30-50-80. What did I want
to pay for my haircut? 30 is what I paid the first time. Then I had to wait for
15 min. and finally had a shampoo and "trim". I think something got lost in the
translation of "trim". I only have a very small ponytail now, and I had to cut
my bangs shorter when I got home. It's the last hair cut I'll need for a few
months! Oh well, it's summer :)
Tuesday was my last day to teach Sophomores.
Just two more days of teaching Freshmen and then 2 weeks of finals and THEN
...TA DAH !!!!
Love you all!!! Mom/Pat
May 28th
We had a "tremor" here yesterday after a 4.8 earthquake in northern China. I was
hoping maybe they'd send us all home. no such luck :( XXOO mom.
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