It was raining cats and many dogs when I walked two long blocks to the apartment complex with Sophia, the school secretary our person that gets everything done. Isn’t it always the secretary’s and shouldn’t they make more money than all of us? She is pregnant and followed me down the street with her umbrella, commenting she loves the rain. Well I will admit it was an experience in wetness, not sweatness. We met the land lady on the 27th floor to view the space. Removed our shoes and put on slippers. I always wondered why they left their shoes at the door. I know now. After walking in the mud puddles, no one would want these dirty shoes in their homes. It is a wonderful custom, and I think everyone should do it. So if you come to visit me I will have slippers for you at the door.
My new apartment is a split level, making it both 27th and 28th floors. The master bedroom view is to the south, highly prized by the Chinese. (Good Fortune!) The kitchen is cute with a huge view of the three pagoda looking hotel and freeway. It is about 1000 square feet I am guessing, plenty large with a living room, extra bedroom and bath and a half. I asked for it to be cleaned and the lights to work in the bathrooms! Geez what is the deal, no lights? So the landlady agreed and will take two extra days to get it ready. She is a nurse and her husband a surgeon. How convenient in case I get ill! Afterwards back to school, I had night guard duty. Just watching the kids as they do homework.
This evening I watched Sawyer do Tai chi with his master. The master has a large stomach, the better to hold his chi, I am told! He gave Sawyer a little box with a baby on it. It is a gift as his wife just had a baby girl. They give gifts to all their friends to share in their joy and fortune of the birth of their new one. Lovely tradition! I came to school the other day and found a porcelain pig wrapped in pink sheer fabric, one of our teachers just had a baby girl and I got to share in their fortune! Goodie a gift for me! I like gifts. The pig has candy in its belly, yum. Alice was showing me her dance moves as she is learning Latin dance. Some one tell Yulia, she may have met her match. (Yulia was one of Andy’s best lady friends. They took us Salsa dancing once! Yulia is fast and furious on the dance floor, Andy and I admired her for that.) So I took pictures of Sawyer and Alice in their poses. They are just too cute. Alice told me today is her mom’s birthday, low and behold she and I are born in the same “birth year.” Alice didn’t know her new Texan friend was so old!
Yoga again and this time we did one of those flip over poses, toes over your head and on the floor. I remember Oprah speaking of muffin top on TV. Well my muffin top had flipped over drooping into my boobs and then smashed into my face. Last class when I did this I got stuck and the yoga teacher had to come flip me back. What a pretzel I am!
Are you ready for a good laugh? OK, your already laughing envisioning me as an inverted muffin, but I got hit on tonight, you know a guy tried to make a pass at me. I was waiting for Alice in front of the University and this white guy came barreling toward me, all excited to see the only white older lady in town. He is a Math teacher from Montreal, wanted my phone number, very persistent, luckily Alice came along and helped me escape his clutches. She said he was not my type! I think he was just excited to see a white face! HELP, just eat, pray teach……no LOVE.