Monday Night Swimming

September 7, 2009

We invited the six teaching fellows and other visiting professor over to swim at the pool tonight. Three of them swam with us and then Sofia, Jacek and I joined them for dinner at a little outdoor restaurant about a twenty-minute walk away. Matt Smith, one of the fellows, speaks excellent Mandarin and ordered all the food. This was the third time this week that they had been there, but now that the beautiful waitress has passed the civil service exam and will start a new job tomorrow working as an attendant on a bus line, my guess is they won't go as often. For the first time, Sofia had multiple vegetarian options: eggplant, tofu, tofu skins, some green skinny vegetable a little bit like the stalks of green onions. Even so, on the walk home she said "I don't know how long I can eat this food. I want hummus."
We start Chinese lessons tomorrow morning.