My third day here in Chengdu is just coming to an end and you can't even imagine what a hard time I'm having sitting on my bed, concentrating on this entry while the 15 mosquito bites all over my body are crying for attention. Very very loud. Maybe at some point those silly creatures will lose interest in my sweet German blood. I seriously doubt it though. But I'll keep you posted on that one!
Soo, my work day ended cleaning up the kitchen after Rex and I made some homemade watermelon ice cream. He is great to cook and bake with, very patient and careful with all the tools and respectful to every step the recipe calls for. The cookbook I brought him as a little gift from Germany was a total hit! This morning we stirred together some delicious omeletts and he happily gobbled his up. Amy was not so interested, but as main meals never get her attention (oh, just wait for snack time though), I was happy she drank all her Yak and Cow milk. I should taste that Yak Milk once. I can't even imagine a taste for it.
The afternoon I spent together with Rex, playing made up games, practicing his counting skills and ended up playing shopping. Man, this boy loves to shop! After many, many 'hold on, I need this too, and I could get this!' his bill was up to $575 and he happily payed the cashier (me) with a lego toy connection piece. If real life would be that easy...
Dinner was delicious again, like I said, Canjie always cooks up several (at least 6) different dishes and gathers them in a circle around a big soup filled bowl which can contain tofu, meat, pumpkin, chestnuts,... YUMMIE! I could eat that stuff all day long, well, let's say my mouth can, because other than my taste, my stomach can't really handle the very hot Chuan food so much. I noticed that Chinese never drink anything next to their food, whereas I can easily sip down half a liter during one meal. But I figured when I drink a lot before dinner and a lot after it works for me, too :-) one happy Ronja. Rex' homework went fine as well, so that afterwards we still had plenty of time to look at some English books together that he brought home from school. I forgot how relaxing it is to look at a book with a 7 year old and to discuss the different pages. Let's me think of Gavin and Joshua, which I had lots of fun with in Burlingame :-) well, and our ice cream making rounded up a nice day. Tomorrow I will have my first Chinese class via Skype. 4 hours. I don't know how the battery of my Ipad will handle that, but we'll both try out hardest! As I am together with one other girl the only Cultural Ambassador in Chengdu, there is no sense in arranging a hole class in a school for just 2 people, so we'll meet online. I'll let you know how it went! Now I will get my AC working, so that after my effort of getting ready for the night my room will invite me with some cool air. Which will last for maybe 1 hour. Then I will wake up at 2am sweating all over. The latest. No covers needed for that szenario. Just a normal night in Chengdu, China