我爱中国

I miss China.

I miss this girl... like crazy

I miss this

... and all my other students and coworkers.

The Social Network

I saw this movie last night and it was actually pretty good. And it very well should have been because it won like four Global Awards over Inception! I'm still bitter that Inception didn't win any awards, it's such an amazing movie.

Anyways, I thoroughly enjoyed The Social Network, not because it was a really cool move with hilarious lines or sweet action scenes, but because it was about facebook. It was really interesting to learn how facebook got started, and who started it. All the actors and actresses did a really good job and the music in it was actually pretty good. So maybe it did deserve the award for best score. Maybe. I especially liked this man named Andrew Garfield..

So adorable, I know. He plays Eduardo Saverin in the movie.

After seeing this movie, I feel a little more connected to facebook now that I know the back story. In the movie, Mark Zuckerberg is super sarcastic and has really dry humor, but it's pretty funny. I don't know if that's how he is/was in real life, but I really want to meet him. He seems kind of awesome. He hasn't made an official comment on the movie, but if he's anything like his character in the movie, I'm sure he could really care less about it. Go Mark. Who cares what happened really, we should all be thanking him because he created the site that we all go on everyday. Justin Timberlake also did a really good job on his part; his character was an a-hole and he was very believable. I think Justin should just switch from singing to acting. Who else agrees?

So anyways, you should all see this movie. If not, you won't be really missing out on anything, it's just cool to know the story. I wouldn't buy the movie, unless it was in the $5 section of course, but, I'd watch it again.

I need...

a freaking job. Seriously guys, if you know of ANYTHING during the day, puh-lease let me know.

But something worth reporting is that I have yet another TV show that I love. Community. Joel McHale. Supa fine.

For your enjoyment, I have provided you with two funny clips of the Halloween episode. Please enjoy. Abed (Batman) is probably my favorite character.

Guess what I did today?

Made an old man smile at my Dermatology appointment. Well, not in the actual appointment, but as I was walking out of the building. Don't be sick, why would a man be in the room with me? Anyways, as I was walking out I smiled at him and he said, "Thank you for that nice smile young lady." So I smiled even bigger because it just made me happy. "Oh now THAT'S a smile!" You're welcome man who works at the front counter of Kaiser in Rancho Cordova. Couldn't we all use a smile?

I thought this was pretty close to being appropriate.

Can I just say that

1) I love Parks and Recreation. I have Ellen to thank for that. She's ma girl when it comes to finding new, good TV shows. I know that whatever show Ellen introduces to me, it will definitely be a good one, full of witty lines and hot men. She would never show me anything super lame like... Pretty Little Liars for example. Just sayin. And, I secretly have a crush on Aziz Ansari... although it is now not a secret anymore. I find him strangle attractive. What is with me and ethnic men?



2) I love America. Who loves America as much as I do? It is a land full of flowing honey and milk. What? Let's all stand up and say the Pledge of Allegiance (if I can remember it, curse that one guy who freaked out about his daughter saying the word "God" in school. I haven't been able to start my day off with the Pledge of Allegiance since I was in 7th grade.)

3) I baked a delicious chocolate fudge cake tonight. My dear Mother bought me a chocolate recipe book for Christmas and it's got some pretty wonderful things in it. The cake may or may not have turned out looking like a pan of poop, but it was very tasty, especially with some homemade whipped cream. Made by... my mother. But I watched. And learned. Anyways, I'd say I'm on my way to becoming an excellent baker.

and 4) Life is pretty good. It would be even better if all of my sisters lived next to me and we could have a party everyday... but you know, we can't have everything. Now, please enjoy this random clip from me. I enjoy screaming this line every now and then (every day), and I think I've got it down. What do you say Lexy?

"We gonna light it up, like it's dynamite!"

Hannah and I took our daily power walk (don't judge me, the air pollution is horrible here) but we went a little further to a kind of park by their man-made lake. It's not the kind of park you picture in your mind, because there is hardly any grass in China. Bless you America. Anyways, so at this park they have the big section that looks like a playground, but it's not! They are devices (not electric) used to work out. I'm sure little kids could play on them if they wanted, but they are there for everyone to get some exercise. So Hannah and I had tons of fun going around and trying everything.



Of course there were many people just standing there, watching us. One cleaning lady was standing like 5 feet away from me, just blatantly staring. But... you can't get too irritated over it because it's not rude to stare here in China. Which is something I really think should be changed immediately. There was this guy probably about 75, who was amazing! Seriously, he was pretty much more flexible than I was, and was super strong. He could hold out his legs parallel while holding onto bars, like they do in the olympics! Over yonder there was another older man doing a bunch of sweet flips on the high bar! What the heck? I could barely do the monkey bars, I don't how I did that when I was a child, those things hurt my hands. But it was fun to mess around, everyone thought we were so funny. One guy even was taking pictures of us with this super nice camera, yes I did some model poses for him.

When we were leaving we went around the corner and both turned on "Dynamite" by Taio Cruz, on our ipods and had a much needed dance party by ourselves. It was SO fun. There was a group of 20 people just standing there watching us, but we didn't care, we were just dancin away! It had been building up for both of us for a while. Dance parties really are the best.

What??

Yes I do love it here in China, and I am having tons of fun. But... I'll just tell the truth. I'm ready to come home. Mainly because of all the annoying attention I get. Of course everyone likes attention, but this is gross attention from men and both Hannah and I get so irritated. And it's not just guys, it's everyone. Everyone stares at you like you're a piece of meat, and they shout "Hello!" at you in kind of a cat callish way. It's getting so old.

Today I went out to exercise, Hannah wasn't with me because she was teaching, and everyone passed me just stared and gawked at me. I don't know why, but today I was especially annoyed. I was just annoyed at everyone looking at me. I know that's a bad attitude, but I was. I went even as far as shouting "what?!" to one girl who kept looking back at me. Haha.. sorry. Some people give you really positive attention though, being really nice and genuinely just want to say hello and want to try and talk. I love people like that. The other day Hannah and I were standing at the bus station and a guy came up and asked if he could talk with us. Normally that means the person will start talking to you in bad English and then ask for your "mobile" number afterwards, which is always really awkward because we never actually want to give it to them. But this time he actually just wanted to talk and practice his English, which was pretty good, and he didn't even ask for our cell numbers afterward. Our bus came and he said, "Ok good-bye!" I was so happy with the situation that I even waved good-bye to him on the bus.

So other than that things are going splendidly. But I'll be happy to get home in December (heh heh) and see my family and good friends. But for the time being, I'm still lovin the land of China!

Something that did make me smile today was when I was eating my kiwi. I just love Kiwi's. They are so delicious and juicy here and I love them.