Up a bit after 6:30, ablutions, walk with the dog, you know the routine. He’s also a creature of habits and routine, and pees and poops at the same few spots every time.
I had a
double with the twelfth-graders, but a third of them were gone for a math resit
exam. I gave the others exam practice and sat around doing some writing,
answering questions when they came to me.
I spent most
of my day compiling questions for the midterm exam. It’s a bit tedious, as I take
bits and pieces from past papers but because they’re in PDF, I need to take
screenshots, crop them and splice them. All the while, I listened to Chinese
punk bands and Clown World news to drown the noise around me. Lunch was
leftovers, and I packed my bag for the weekend. My afternoon went by like a
breeze, and then I got home, ate a quick meal, and finished packing.
The
girlfriend came in just as I was finishing my bowl and got angry since I didn’t
leave anything for her. Woopsy. So she was pouting for the first 20 minutes of
our road trip but eventually forgave me.
I drove all
the way to Hefei, which took over four hours. Not much to say about it. I got a
bit lost once we reached the humongous city and its convoluted system of
elevated expressways, the GPS would sometimes tell me to get off and drive
along a parallel road, and sometimes it would be all potholed and dilapidated.
Eventually we got to the in-laws’ apartment, had a nice chat, ate some late
night homemade beef noodles, and I had a passionfruit-flavored beer they had bought
from an old man who opened a tiny microbrewery just downstairs. Thus ended our
day.
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