Chinese Doctors and Halloween
11.18.2009
Cold weather sure did sneak up fast... and so did the flu... I started getting all stuffed up and got a really annoying cough. So I had to do it... I decided that I would go to a Chinese doctor. John and I decided that we would go together on Friday which was the next day. Friday rolls around and boy was that an interesting day. So I'm teaching my last class in the morning, I turn my back to the class while writing on the board, turn around... and there are two boys beating the crap out of each other in the back of the class! I run back there yelling Hey! Hey! and pull them apart. I tried to ask them what happened but neither could translate the situation into English.. I could tell that they were both really ashamed of what they did, both of their heads hung low as I took them to their head teacher. As I was walking back to my class I was in awe.. like... what just happened? Jeez...
My Classroom
It doesn't stop there though.. right after class I went to the doctor with John. (Pretty much like a Walk-In Clinic only its crowded, everyone stares at you and there is absolutely no privacy). So I sit down with the doctor and John and she reaches in a drawer and hands us both a thermometer because John wasn't feeling so hot either. Well without even thinking I put the thermometer under my tongue and after about 30 seconds I realized that John put his under his armpit and he's giving me a weird look... This is how our conversation went after this...Me- "Why you lookin at me like that?"
John- "You put it in your mouth..."
Me- "Yeah it's a thermometer..."
John- "In China we don't do that, we put it under the arm"
Me- "Oh.. well should I switch?"
John- "You don't have to, that is the correct way"
Then it dawned on me.... Oh my god.... I have a nasty chinese armpitty thermometer in my mouth..
Me- "John..... do you think they wash these?"
John- "Hmmmm...... I don't know"
I sit there with a blank look on my face thinking about how many Chinese armpits this has been on... The doctor comes up, looks at the thermometer and puts it back into the same drawer she got it out of.. wow.... no wonder why I'm sick..
Thats not the worst part, after talking to the doctor John says that I have the option of getting a shot or taking medication... I'm thinking.. a shot? what? why? But then he explains that it will work a little faster so I agree. I go back into a little curtain room and tell John to come with me. The nurse comes and I take of my jacket and start to unbutton my shirt. John gives me a confused look and says... "Jordan, in China.. we do shots here" and points to his butt. I say.. You've got to be kidding me... so..... I pull the ol trousers down and the nurse pricks the needle in, of course I flinch and let a little yelp while laughing... so John starts laughing, then the nurse starts laughing... John says "Wow... this would make a funny picture!" and I say "I should have brought my camera" so John pulls out his phone and snaps one of the greatest pictures of me with my pants down, getting an unforgettable shot in the booty. As we're leaving the nurse says something to John he turns to me and says.. "If you feel better tomorrow, you will come back for another shot ok?" Hmmmmm..... I guess they didn't want to leave the other cheek hangin.....
Halloween was really fun and well........ interesting. We met some new people from Russia, Hungary, and Italy so I invited them over for some Halloween festivities along with some other friends. Of course I had to decorate my apartment... you'd be surprised what a little toilet paper and some red bags over the lights can do! It was a success! After the party here we went to a club Mazzo. To our surprise, Mazzo was decorated in Halloween stuff too! Well I don't really know HOW it happened, but at some point in the night I found a little rubber squishy mouse and was carrying it around in my hands petting it. It's just kinda funny when you wake up the next morning with a rubber mouse in your pocket... It's one of those things that makes you go.. hmmmm.....
My apartment for Halloween
Teaching Halloween was really fun for the students. I drew a bunch of pictures on the board witches, bats, ghosts etc. and explained what "Trick or Treat" and "Boo!" was. The kids went bonkers when I drew a witch cause they would say Harry Potter! Harry Potter!
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