We got our faculty charge cards—so now we can have lunch or dinner in the canteen—which is a mixed blessing. We wander around until we find something that looks tasty, edible, and not too spicy. Dad isn’t much with chopsticks, so the other day he ordered a plate of rice and went to the utensil box, where they mostly have chopsticks. There was a wire basket of soup spoons on top, so he grabbed one of those to shovel in his rice. The next day when we went back, we realized there were clean spoons below the chopsticks—the ones in the basket on top were already used! Gross, but everyone has laughed about that all week.
We met our BYU friends for dinner at the Pizza Place on Friday. They have a wonderful chicken Caesar salad with bacon and parmesan cheese and real lettuce. It’s been the only lettuce we dare eat. They also have great pizza, lasagna, baked potato skins, and various other assorted burgers and steaks. It is only 2 blocks from our apt. So very convenient, and 2-for-1 on Wednesdays.
Tim has lost about 10 lbs. I’ve lost 5. He is mostly like the energizer bunny—runs around the track on his days off, and over to the office once or twice a day…I can barely make it home in the afternoon, have discovered a bus near the south gate that delivers me to the Rainbow Bridge, and cuts about 20 min. off my walk time. I will be doing that on long days….
Saturday, Dad had interviews with the District Pres. So while he was gone I was a good Hausfrau, and went shopping for vegetables on Market street. I picked out some broccoli, pointed to a red onion said “yellow,” found a couple of zucchini (skin was lime green instead of dark.) I grabbed a couple of ears of corn, and 2 peaches, put them all into my tote bag and brought home my own “Bountiful Basket”. Plus a stop at the bakery for some little treats. Then I even made a macaroni tomato zucchini casserole for dinner!
Sunday we hailed a taxi for church. The new Branch Presidency is 2 of the American men who work for Micron. They called Dad to be the Young Men’s President. (He wished he hadn’t told him so much about his Scouting experience). So now he has one Deacon to teach, work on Duty to God, and Scouting merit badges. It will help keep him in touch with his grandson’s activities, and he’ll be a nice surrogate grandpa to “Tommy.” So send your scouting ideas.
In between, we’ve had to have extra passport pix taken for our “Work Permit.” People on the street are very helpful with translating or helping us find bus stops, etc. We have a couple of students who can order on Amazon.china or TaoBao for us. We are going to request a paper punch! Our neighbor Herb, is diabetic, and has an ulcerated sore on his foot. We are quite worried about him—the walking is taking its toll—although they arranged a taxi for him today—right to his class building. Yesterday he lost his keys to the apt. and office. Last week he left his backpack in the taxi. Poor Tim is basically taking care of 2 invalids.
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