Americans Eat Meat.

Today is Wednesday. We found out this afternoon that our train to take us to Beijing from our city, Changchun, is going to leave on next Friday night instead of Saturday. Oh crap...that changes alot of things. I thought that was bad until I got the next message. 3 minutes later, I got a text saying that we need to send our luggage ahead of us. It should be in our FAO's (foreign affair officer) office by 8 am Monday morning. Basically, that means instead of having the planned week and some to finish packing and grading - we have half a week. I hadn't started packing yet. So our grades are supposed to be done by Tuesday-ish. All of our luggage (aka apartments) should be packed up by Monday. Not to mention the fact that we've pretty much already booked every meal time with students and a few extra times in between as well. It's going to be a very busy next few days. Thoughts are highly requested.

As we transition, we begin to think about changing our diet back to the American way. Eating more dairy is on the top of the list. We also have told our students that "No, we don't eat rice every meal. We actually dont usually eat rice. We eat some sort of bread, meat, and maybe a form of potato."  We eat big pieces of meat - here they eat slices or slivers of meat. That being said, I'll introduce the following question.

Tannah teaches "Survey of English Speaking Countries" aka "Western Culture/History." For her last class before their final test she was going to answer some of their questions. She had the students write down any question they wanted to know about and she picked the main/common ones and taught about them again. As she read through them, I got a text in my office reading "Do you have your camera?" I didn't know what was going to happen until she came in and put this down in front of me.

I'd like to mention the fact that this is one of the students that I dont teach. haha. This is an awesome question though. Thanks for asking. We Americans do like our meat. Mmm Mmmm Beef.