Today didn’t really feel like a typical Sunday because we actually had a class field trip. I grabbed some lunch at the café, which was delicious as usual, and headed to our “field trip” location. I don’t really know if it can be considered a field trip since we just went across the hall, but it turned out to be awesome. A performer and two of his students from the Peking Opera came and put on a special show for us. First the performer acted out a few things and had a competition for which of us could replicate it the best. The winner, Josh, won the prize of getting his face painted in Peking Opera make up. They then had another competition when one of the students came out and did a performance as a monkey king and chose a few parts for people to imitate. There wasn’t as much of a clear-cut winner in this one so they actually had to have not one, but two tiebreakers. The first tiebreaker was to see who could spin these batons the quickest and the second was to see who could keep a ring spinning around their foot the longest. Justin ended up winning and also won the chance to get his face painted. Since he won the monkey king competition we thought it was only appropriate for him to be painted as the monkey king.
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| Chinese Monkey King performer |
After the competitions were all over we switched rooms to watch the face painting in action. While the artist painted Justin’s face we all painted along on a piece of paper which turned out to be pretty hard. They then painted Josh’s face which was basically all black with a few spots of red and white which was pretty funny compared to the intricacy of Justin’s. We then took a group picture and were on our way.
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| Justin as the Monkey King with my attempt on paper |
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| Peking Opera performer and instructor |
For dinner Catriona, Joe, and I decided to go out for an actual dinner rather than our usual street food. We went to one of the malls close by and found this giant cafeteria with more options of things to eat than I could have ever imagined. Joe and Catriona ordered this beef, egg, and noodle dish and I was about to follow when the cashier pointed to a different dish. I asked if it was good and he didn’t really know what I meant but I decided to go for it because it basically just looked like beef and peppers and onions. The workers were all giggling so I then figured they were going to give me some outrageously spicy food or something but it turned out to be really, really good. I think they must have already had an extra made, because as soon as I paid it was ready down the line on a sizzling plate. It also looked nothing like the one they had on display, so that was a little confusing but I have no complaints. After dinner we headed home and I caught up on all of my homework, which probably took longer than it should of. We did some planning of future trips to take and Bryan and I really want to make it to the ice festival in Harbin although it is looking a little pricey. I briefly Skyped with my mom and told her to do some research for me and also did my first Viber call with my dad but unfortunately he was busy at work so it didn’t last too long. Time to rest up for a long school week ahead.
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| Dinner at the mall |
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