Tough luck!

Hey!

Today is July 12th. I will remember this day I think..
So many things went wrong today... sniff! sniff!

By starters, even before waking up, before opening my eyes, I was moving in the bed ( I use to move a lot and sometimes yes, you won't know but also talk asleep hehe, lately even in English oops! haha) and...
I felt a terrible pain in my right leg, to be more specific in my calf. It was really a serious one, very sharp... I woke up in the moment almost in tears...
I changed the position and started to fade and I felt asleep again, but not very deeply this time... so bad..
When I listened to my alarm clock, about 1 hour and a bit more later, I woke up and the pain was less but still there... =( So bad! I tried to go to the bathroom but I have to jump on one foot! No way to even stand with both feet on the ground. Unbelievable!

I started massaging and slowly felt a bit better, prepared for my lesson but of course, I arrived late, no way to hurry up hehe. Today we had dictation （听写）, almost every single morning we are checking the new words ! About 20-30 a day, but those are only the one who we check in the book, besides I have many more I don't know and the book supposes I do or either the teachers or my classmates comment hehe.

Learning Chinese could have some difficulties but I think also could be very good and it's a new mind set, which allows you to understand a new way of thinking, a new perspective or amples the existing one.

Well, after my 4 period class I was able to move a little bit better I went to eat with my new friend from Spain, Fangfang and her younger sister. They are Huaqiao ( 华侨),Overseas Chinese, Spanish-born and Spanish speakers and all, but both their parents are Chinese who emigrated long time ago before they even existed hehe.
The lunch was ok but the food in the canteen was not so good, sometimes I don't know but even when the ingredients are fresh and the food is nice, the people just make it look bad by the way they present it. Like if you were in prision or something...
Stainless iron trays and green colour (well this is a bit happy hehe) plastic chopsticks. Also the way they serve could be like throwing not very gently... Well, China needs to take care of such little details, besides that the flavor was ok. Decent. The price cheap as usual, 4 yuan for a tray with rice and veggies and all, around 0.50 USD.

I rested and today we were going to go for Mexican food hehe, I found the place in the web and was not so far from here, like 5 stops by bus. Paying with my wonderful transports card is only 40 ctvs of yuan, (si mao / si jiao) Wow!!!

But my friends and our teacher joined so we went by taxi..
God save us! The man looked at the address and shouted at us a clear "bu renshi" (不认识, I don't know = I'm not familiar) But we pushed him, gave him some hints about the places nearby and finally he agreed to take us but not very nicely and all the time talking to himself in a rude tone. Really I don't recommend you to take taxis in Beijing. I have never done it before, but I knew about their bad reputation and today was just a confirmation of this!

Finally he left us close by saying he didn't know more and we were crazy to be able to find such a number in the street, blah blah! And God's sake we are talking about a big street, not a tiny little one, but whatever! We walked and found the place..

The name was changed! Some of the old labels and decoration mostly were there! But... Not anymore a Mexican restaurant. Now is not "niña" but a Spicy Hot pot!!! (辣火锅= La Huoguo) That's not what we were looking for..... Sniff sniff!!!

The other 4 also had their own problems with the driver but arrived drenched in sweat!
We decided we will get another kind of food, we went next door and one table was broken, the AC too and the weather was not cool. Beijing is hot in the summer!!!

Finally we ended up eating pizza, at least that was good! hehe 98 kuai for three people package including:
+Any 12" pizza
+French fries
+Chicken wings
+Salad and
+3 bowls of corn cream soup

Yummy! hahaha... Well, happy ending hehe... Now time to go to bed hehe. Ciao!

See ya tom!