I should be going over the text for my one-on-one tone humiliation session, but I have to blog about the salt I just bought .
I went to the store to buy some more emergency protein, found a bunch of beef snacks. We'll see how that goes. I also found a bunch of peanuts, which are better than in the States, by the way, snappier, fresher tasting, even from a package.
Well, today, I bought the last bag of salt in the store, which seemed fancier than the iodized stuff back home, but I really, really needed to irrigate my sinuses, i.e., snort warm salt water to empty my head of mucus. Sorry TMI. So I bought this salt, after checking that it wasn't MSG, and brought it back and tasted it. YUM. It's one of the reasons my peanuts taste so good. The package says it's famous salt from this province, but I bet all salt packages say that.
So I mixed this delicious salt with warm water and snorted it, and it was delicious that way as well, much much less painful than snorting plain water. Now my sinuses are clean for the moment.
I think I got this cold from studying with E.
Ok, off to one-on-one tone humiliation!
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john patrick | 万吉平老师
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studying Mandarin in Hangzhou, China
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2 comments:
Just so you know, I've been doing nothing but googling sinus irrigation techniques, since I've had serious sinus issues since I was 14, which was a long time ago, and why the hell did I NOT know about this until now! Hello?
Thanks for the TMI. I hope you get into the zone with your studies, and it all becomes old hat in two days. One. Even better. So is it Mandarin or Cantonese that you're learning?
I vividly remember the peanuts - and especially roasted peanut butter that I would get at the 5 corners (street) market, near fudan U. I'd get a loaf of bread from the bakery on the way (I could only find it by smell), buy bananas at the market, and then get a little jar of it from the fella with the peanuts cart. Mmmm, hot roasted peanut butter & good bananas on hot new bread...
Also: my brother and I both found that Chinese student cafeteria food made us lose weight, too. Even when we indulged in street beer (do they still make Reeb beer?) and street-fried whatever-they-fried.
Sounds like you're having a terrific time!
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