I love victory!!

So....I wonder what my roommate's plans are for her strawberries! *cringe*

Actual "Did she really say that?" conversation from today.

Her: So after you are in America, will you ever come back to China?

Me: Yes, China is home now. I want to live here. 

{There was talk about me missing or not missing my family, etc

why I want to live in China and what I will do when I am here for good}

Her: But what about when you get to the age that you want 

to be married? When you start thinking about that, what will you do?

Do you like Chinese guys?

Me: How old do you think I am?

Roommate goes nuts jumping up and down screeching "Yes yes yes!! Guess guess!!"

{It should be noted, this is not a teacher. I have known this girl since my first semester here. She was friends with my first roommate.}

Her: 24 or 25 I'm thinking.

Roommate giggles uncontrollably and tells her to keep guessing.

{It went on for awhile like usual}

Her: What are you doing sitting here? You should be out trying

to find a husband! Why do you never come 

to Zhengzhou with us?Do you like black guys? 

There are a lot of black guys in Zhengzhou...and you know, they like girls who are

bigger. Like, big butt, big boobs....you've got it all. They will love you!

We can find you a black guy.

She says to my roommate: I always knew she had a boyfriend

back in America! 

Roommate: How many boyfriends have you had before.

Me: None

Her: Oh come on! How about in High School?

Me: Nope

Her: So you are a virgin?

Me: Yes

Her: Wow! We could sell her for like a million bucks! Really! You would be so 

popular....

{Still not sure if she actually meant sell me as in a slave trade

type of a thing or if she meant that would be a good 'selling point' 

along with the butt and boobs for the

guys she wants to set me up with.

I will be locking my door tonight!! ;)

In much BETTER conversations I had today, I just got back from

grabbing something to eat! {I had planned to go out at an actual better

and more normal dinner time, but just as I was about to leave, she came

here to ask if I could exchange some USD for RMB, and she 

just ended up staying to chat....about my state of singleness as it turns out.}

I went to get the pulled pork sandwich I love off campus. 

It is always the same lady there and we will often

strike up a small conversation. 

While she was making the sandwiches, I pulled up a 

chair and told her that I had been planning on

'treating' my parents when they were in China
to her food, but now I would return to America before they

came so I couldn't. 

She told me I could just turn around and come back with them. 

This led to me explaining why they were coming

and why they would not be in Xinzheng if I were not here.

{Its been very helpful, this week in class we have been talking

about words such as 'pregnant', 'adopt' , 'raise a child'} 

She kept going on and on about what great parents I have

to want to have more children when they already have

six, and they are now 'older' {She actually never said

anything like 'So old!" or anything that I might normally expect, which I was

pleasantly surprised about! She just said she thought that with grown kids they

wouldn't want to start over again and how tiring it would be 

to have children again.} 

It was cool! I loved getting to talk to her and have her actually understand me!

I am so happy lately that I am talking with people and going into more then just

"I'm tired, the day is nice, my name is, I like the colour blue" 

#ItsTheLittleThings

It was also good to have this kind of a conversation after my class today! 

OY!

Turns out I was suppose to have done this for homework but I only heard her say 8, not 7. We went through it in class though. This is a chart on the two kinds of wives/mothers that we were talking about.

Work outside the home wives and full time house wives. 

You are to choose the letters that fit in the boxes for each. 

Basically it is a pros and cons for each. 

On the left is work. The top box is for the pros, the bottom for cons. The correct pro list for working included 'Fulfilling' {as in it is a fulfilling lifestyle} and "Can make money"

The correct cons were to be "Busy", "Tiring", "Gone all day/working from morning to night" 

Those deemed by my classmates and teacher as the correct pro list for 

full time house wife were:

"Relaxing", "Can write a book", "Can play games/hang out"

The cons were chosen as 

"Boring", and a mixture of what pretty much means "Once a house wife always a house wife" 

That if something were to happen, they would never want to do anything or be anything but

a house wife. {The 'something' that could happen was determined to be, hubby looses his job, he dies, or he leaves you...what are you going to do now?!} 

In my chart, I wrote the pros as "Fulfilling","Can earn {or my meaning was save} money","Can write a book","Busy" "Tiring" 

and for my cons I wrote:

"没有" 

which means 'none' 

No one saw it so they didn't get to gasp at me or anything! But I smiled to myself as I wrote it.

This same group also said later that the best school teacher, or things that make the best school teacher is someone who is pretty, gives out high marks {deserved or not} does not scold or criticize for a job poorly done or being late. Those were the top three choices. 

Save me! ;) 

Couldnt resist taking a picture of this little one on my way home from picking up dinner! SO CUTE!

 For speaking class, we have a team assignment due next Wednesday.

We had to make teams of 4,

One person writes three questions about the subject of those that stay at home {kids, not wives} and don't want to get a job, just rely on their parents to pay for everything.

One person then asks 8 Chinese people to answer these three questions. {Must get their name and age, and a photo with them is best}

One person must then put together a PPT given this information.

One person must give the presentation on Wednesday.

I was passing on the information to a girl who had skipped class

yesterday when we were told about it.

She said "So who is on our team? You, me, how about that other guy....who else?" 

We decided we will ask if we can have a team of only three since there really is only enough work for three people and we are pretty sure our fourth person wouldn't have done it anyway. 

She asked me what I wanted to do,and I said I had no problem being

the one to ask the 8 people the questions if no one else wanted it.

She said "I think that is the choice that fits you best anyway!"

The funniest part? She was the girl on my team last semester who was worried because our team had no one that was outgoing, funny, and willing to make a fool of themselves when we made the movie. 

I'm changing minds about me, people! Changing minds!

Wonder what they are going to think about when it gets out that I am a 30 year old without a boyfriend!

LOL!!!