Lazy Americans

Well currently I'm catching up on my blog during some random 3-hour break they decided to give us.. But more on that later.


I think having a lazy Sunday is pretty universal. Especially when you are hungover haha Basically we slept until around 9 or 10, and then at 11:30 Wei Wei & Denise (the Purdue people) told us we could come get their free fruit that Shangri-La gave them since they were leaving that day and couldn't take it with them. However, due to some rum drinks the night before, and Sarah being the only functional one at that point, we thought she was going to go get the fruit.. Not so much though, and we didn't find this out until Denise called us back being very confused as to why nobody came haha We quickly got ready and went over there to sign some papers (I may have signed over a kidney, not quite sure..) and get free fruit. Well after that we basically went and we going to get lunch at icafe when Chef Nicholas (the head chef) stopped us and said how often are you in China? Why don't you guys go try new places? We then thoroughly explained that we are cheap college students and don't know any places haha Then we felt guilty and asked him to tell us where a place is.. Then he felt guilty because he felt like he was kicking us out haha #AwkwardMoment 


This is where a Spain-like-Bone-Soup incident. SO we listen to Chef's directions, except the BBQ place he was telling us was open, but the BBQ doesn't start until later #OurLuck So after being awkward and trying to decide if it would be acceptable to walk back into icafe for lunch and face Chef, we decided to just eat there.. #WrongChoice So we have to order using pictures on the wall because, well, we can't read Chinese haha We pick something that looks like shrimp/seafood and then something that is a beef/chicken with broccoli, and then we wait... awkwardly while the entire staff stares at us.. then they bring out the dish we thought was shrimp/seafood, it turns out it was sweet potato fries covered in some sweet and sour sauce hahaha.. then the laughter stops when we see the dish that we thought was beef/chicken with broccoli.... #SomethingsNotRight One thing we got right: there's broccoli.. the other thing.. ummmm.... questionable.. mainly bones, weird inside things, we didn't know what to do.. ummm... so we ate the broccoli, someone tried to eat this boney-mystery dish (which we find out later are pig trotters and are a delicacy here), and then we paid and left hahaha At this point we're starving but have no courage to face Chef so we all went back and napped haha

Our delicious lunch

Once we all finally rose from our naps (and I say rose because it was a close call for any of us to get up), we went to icafe for dinner haha Luckily Chef wasn't there so he didn't ask us how lunch went.. That pretty much concluded our night haha Quite a Lazy Sunday, it was great, I finally got some sleep!

Onto Monday.. Well Monday we were told to be at the in-room dining office at 8:00am, where they gave us all the in-room dining procedures in about thirty minutes.. Then.. we waited for an order.. and waited.. and then waited some more.. in order to actually do stuff for in-room dining, people need to order food! haha So we go to lunch and by the time we come back we had just missed an order #MyLuck then basically we waited all day and had about 10 orders.. Oh and did I mention that only men are allowed to deliver the food and actually go into the room (for safety reasons)? So Sarah and I would accompany the guy upstairs and the awkwardly wait around the corner from the room haha And that was how I spent my day in in-room dining, not that exciting haha After work, we came back and quickly changed and left for the gym! Then after the gym we stuffed our faces with dinner at icafe. #TheUsual Then Dennis met Ann, Heather and I outside our apartment and we went to our little coffee shop that we found the other day, where I ordered a cappuccino and this is how it came:

So here's my day so far (Tuesday for those of you who aren't good at the whole time/day change haha): Didn't have to be into work until 11 at Nishimura, the Japanese Restaurant, get there and everyone at the place was looking at us and confused as to why we were there, then the restaurant opened at 11:30 for lunch.. They asked us probably four times if we had lunch and if we wanted to go to the staff cafeteria to get lunch, finally we were like okay we'll go... Keep in mind that this restaurant doesn't get a lot of business, so it's VERY slow there.. Went to lunch, came back and nothing had really changed, only about ten people in the restaurant... Then we waited.. waited.. nothing to do.. Then Ruby, who's some high-ranked employee in the Food & Beverage Department stopped by to check-in, then she told us that from 2:30 until 5:15 that we could take a break since the restaurant is closed then and then we will work from 5:15 until 6:30ish.. Yup, that's been my day so far haha #EasyPeasyLemonSqueezy <-- Name that movie

OH, and I finally tried some of the Chinese chips I had bought the other day. They're steak-flavored. And they're uhhhhmaahhhzzzinnnngggg!!!! They literally taste like a steak. 

Anyways, have an hour until I go back to work (if you can even call our cross-training that right now haha).

Miss you all!!!!!!!!!!!