Took Chuck’s shirts to the laundry and while there witnessed a “toilet training”. Mother squatting with small child between her knees (open bottom pants) and facing a wall. She said something and then smacked the bottom several times. Child screamed, but didn’t do anything. They waited and then she said something again, smacked again, screamed again and still no result. I was finished with my transaction, so walked a few shops away and then returned. There was a puddle and she was mopping the kid’s bottom. This was a pretty small child – I don’t think walking yet. (4 flights)
It is really hot today, so we decided to go to the Science museum for the air conditioning. Now I know what celebrities feel like. The museum was filled with teenage girls. Every girl had a camera cell phone, and it seemed like every girl wanted her picture taken with us.
This was one group. You can see others waiting in the background.
The museum was fun – lots of buttons to push and things to do. Nothing was in English, but it was stuff that we recognized. One of the things was like a fun house. You walked up some stairs and into a room that was tilted. It was a very strange feeling and very hard to move across the room. They had optical illusions and things to test your reflexes. Some girls were playing volleyball with a ball that you could see on a screen. Their pictures were on the screen too, so they were hitting at an air ball and trying to match it. Lots of giggles.
Then we went to Carrefour for the blueberry spin and a little shopping. They were having little kid bike races in front of the store, but took such a long time getting organized we didn’t take pictures, just zillions of tiny kids with tiny two-wheelers with training wheels. (4 flights)
Walked across campus to “the restaurant on the corner”. I now know that its name is Jiang-Nan-Chun. This is the one that the restaurant is on the 2nd floor and the food choice room is on the 3rd. (2 flights)
We had pickled cukes, shrimp with peppers, asparagus & onions, bok choy and a dish that we thought was dumplings (or some sort of meat balls) with meat. The round things turned out to be hard boiled eggs and the meat may have been ox tails. It was really tasty but strange. Meat is hard to identify because everything is chopped into little pieces. I think that they take a cow and go chop, chop, chop regardless of where the bones are.
While we were eating, we watched the construction project out of the window. At 7 pm on a Sunday night, they were still going strong. I do not know if they work shifts, but if they don’t, it looks like a 24/7 job.
It was cooling off, so a pleasant walk back to our apartment. (4 flights) I turned on the air conditioners in the living room and our bedroom to give it a shot of cool before bedtime. I haven’t been able to regulate it well enough that it is comfortable for sleeping with it on. I’ll just have to experiment some more.
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