Today was pretty shitty.
It started out ok. I got up and ate some eggs. I read a little (Siddhartha, which makes me want to learn German so I can read the original). Then I decided to venture into the cold. It's COLD here.
I waited for the bus. My ipod was dead, so I brought my book. It started raining while I was waiting.
It took the bus in excess of 30 minutes to get there. I was at the third stop, and the bus was already full because of the delay. I was going a long way, so I knew it would be a LONG journey.
I was the only person getting off at my stop, so I had to fight the 10 million people on the bus to get off saying, "Excuse me. Excuse me! EXCUSE ME!!!" the entire time. I only realized once I got off the bus that I know how to say it in Chinese.
I walked around. I was looking for a store to buy a sweatshirt that will fit me. I didn't find one. I did find the river, so I sat and read for awhile. I wasn't ready to get back on the bus.
It was too cold to sit by the water.
I got back on the bus and came home. I wished I had bought a new DVD when I got home.
A friend who lives outside Beijing was supposed to come to town tonight so we could go out. He never called.
Another party presented itself, but I didn't feel like it anymore.
I settled in to watch the one English channel when I got a text from one of my students.
"Hi, I'm Yan. The weather will became cold these days. Be care about it. Don't catch a cold. See you next week. Have a good time :)"
It made it all better.
