Mask on - day 3

Yesterday was rather 'hot' in school with the mask and everything. I sat in my English group's oral lesson with their speaking teacher. I nearly fell asleep sitting there with the fan blowing on my head. I just didn't feel the air-con kicked in... after 40 minutes of trying to stay awake and the fact that they weren't really engaged nor doing what the teacher told them. It makes the whole atmosphere even more boring than it already is!

After one lesson, the speaking teacher's gone and I took over. I had to express my boredom to them by getting them all up to speed and telling them my expectation in my lessons and that I can't stand boring lessons like this. Soon enough they pulled themselves together and we finished our lesson very quickly. By then my mask was soaking wet already, difficult to breathe if nothing else. 'raining' is part of my daily routine nowadays. Yes heavy sweating. Yesterday my entire top was soaking wet by the time I arrived school! I had to let the fan blow at me constantly throughout the first period (I didn't join that oral lesson) so that my top won't have different color patches! Guess I won't be wearing that top again :P At least not in hot days (lol)

Yesterday afternoon was rather uneventful, was hoping to do some uni though I haven't finished reading the textbook, so I couldn't really...but the book's at home and everyday after school, all I am doing is cooking and washing and cleaning, by the time all is done, it'll be shower time. After shower, it's bed time (10:30), so not really time to read my book. Don't even get round to let Xiaobao listens to his YBCR CD... how can a woman do so many things in one day, to work, to cook, to clean, to wash, oh to study... *sigh* not to include the time spend(or waste) on feeling painful on the back or everywhere else ...

Today I have 2 lessons, one before and one after lunch. I had a rather big lunchbox today lol. It has u-dong (noodles), spinach, choi sum, green beans with eggs, pork knuckle meat (got it from Taste yestday), broccoli with lobster meatballs. Well the name suggests that it's made of lobster meat but I doubt it. Might be some fake processed stuff and added some color and flavourings to make it looks like lobster meat :) Don't worry, I am not eating those processed food a lot, only occasionally, actually this is the first time and I only have half of the meatball in my lunchbox. Seeing all those dish in my lunchbox, you might think my lunchbox must be huge. Well today is rather big :) but still the same box lol. Since I put a little bit of everything in my box to add variety of nutrient. Though greens portion will always be bigger than the meat bit. So seeing that pork knuckle meat picture, don't think I put the whole thing in my box hehe...just a little bit of everything really...

I also brought my sesame seed dessert, it's in the fridge right now, like it chilled :) Just for your information, Chinese have this belief that during the last trimester, I need to eat some 'cool' kind of food. 'Cool' here is not temperature kind of cool but in terms of Chinese medicine theory. It is believe that 'hot' stuff will give you spots on your face and 'cool' stuff won't. However it also has to do with one's body type. Say if you are 'hot' based body type, imagine eating lots of 'hot' stuff like chilly, durian, mango, those 'hot' type of food will thus give you more spots on your face. Whereas if you are 'cool' based body type and you eat 'cool' types of food like watermelon, sesame seed, etc. you'll feel 'weaker' relatively and it's sad that women eat those things while they are having period, it won't have with the stomach cramp. Of course these theories are non-existent in western medicine, and yet we are so used to here. I don't know what makes the food 'cool' or 'hot', I just know which kind is which, but I don't know all the food. Sometimes I need to ask around, usually older Chinese know these stuff better :) I am surrounded by those experience people in school, they'll tell me or ask me if I started eating watermelon or sesame seed dessert yet. That's how I know sesame seed dessert is 'cool' ;)

OK my first lesson is at 12:30, I shall chill and think about my uni... more updates later!