Day 10 - New places and bright lights

Finally, the 10th day of our time here in Wuhan! Some sort of milestone for me, I suppose. Had a whole day off today to work on our Work Breakdown Structure and Statement of Work for our OIP movie due in the near future.

Was able to wake up late today, no alarms, no deadlines, no rush at all. Ah, finally a day where I'm actually well-rested. I invest too much time on this blog. No other choice though, if I want people to be able to relate to what I'm going through everyday while I'm here!

Anyway, I ended up waking at 11.44AM while the roomies had risen early to finish off their projects. Thank god Group A was willing to finish everything at one go last night.

Left for lunch at 12.40PM with my usual meal buddies Eliza, Michelle, Eudora and Houngsheng. Was looking for a new place along 旅大街today, and decided to try a restaurant two doors away from our usual 柠檬乐.

Happy Kitchen!

Elaborate menu cover! Me like.

Houngsheng and the comidically small kettle.

In Happy Kitchen, the layout is exactly the same as 柠檬乐. You write down your own order and they give you a huge bucket of rice. Great strategy for the guys who are huge eaters.

Tried some vegetables, pork with black fungus, tomatoes with eggs (becoming a staple food in every meal we have in Wuhan) and potato with roasted pork. Tasted way better than our usual 柠檬乐! Nom nom nom.

Went back to the dorm after lunch and worked on my blog some more. Around 6.15PM, brought some of the others down to Happy Kitchen again for dinner. Almost everyone agreed that food is better there. Plan: Succeed!

Decided after dinner that the weather was almost perfect for setting off our wishing lanterns we bought a few nights ago. Problem was, Zhenzao and some of the other guys were still out at Walmart with the local students, and we all had to wait for them.

Nicholas the Spiderman who's afraid of spiders and Momo. Momo is posing like that supposedly because he's holding a peach (momo in Japanese is peach) is his hands. Hmm.

Michelle and her wishing lantern.

2L04 kids!

Eliza, Diyanah, Sheila and I got so bored, we wandered into the guys' room to bug them. They ended up ignoring us. Here's why:

The guys (Yuchuan and Nicholas) in their natural habitat watching...

....a Hongkong Drama.

(You'd think they'd be doing more manly things, but apparently not)

The others finally came back after 10PM, but we had to hurry with the lanterns before the building got locked down for the night.

Lotus seeds from Mr Chia.

(Agnes) The things you do to get your wishes to Chang E.

"赵家俪

心想事成！大家都平平安安！"



Personal Reflections:

The wishing lanterns were really fun. They apparently send your wishes up to Chang E (goddes in the moon) to be granted on Mid-Autumn's Day. Since it was raining during the actual Mid-Autumn, we could only set it off today before we left on a three-day river cruise over the weekend.

We almost didn't, though, since we were taking a long time trying to open Eliza's room after they closed the door on all their keys. The problem ended up being solved with a swipe of a card.

Makes me remember how unsafe our dorms actually are, especially with the local students barely five metres away. The other night when the girls were practicing the dance out in the corridor, they got so rowdy and actually took stools out to sit and watch us in the corrider. Creepy.

I guess security is another important thing not to be easily taken granted for. Speaking of which, I'd better go double-lock my doors now before I head for cloud nine. Goodnight!