Pizza!!!

The last couple of days I've been trying to brave the cafeteria again.  I figure...once a day really isn't going to be too bad right?  And besides my stomach is finally feeling a little better, so I figure it is time to find some foods I like.

Today's lunch looked like this...

Yes, that's right...I found pizza!  And it is actually really good!  The kind they have is kind of like a deep dish Pizza Hut pizza...I've only ever seen Canadian Bacon...but that's o.k. by me!  I finished it off with a couple of my safe staples here...a big bowl of wontons and some melon.  That should be enough food to tide me over until...well, tomorrow!  I've begun taking a little tupperware with me when I go to eat and that way I can bring the leftovers home for dinner or breakfast.

Just one last picture of part of the cafeteria hall (not a very good one...but I didn't want to look like that weird American guy...especially since most of these students know me...so I snuck this picture in).

After lunch I tried going to the CBD (really close to the cafeteria and my office) to get some canned coffee drinks (perhaps the coffee maker will have to wait).  But really, I was determined to try to pay by listening to the cashier (rather than just sticking out a really large bill and getting tons of change).  Well, I thought she said 'shure'.  I thought that was the word for ten (although it didn't sound exactly like it...I couldn't think of anything else close).  So I gave her a ten.  Then she said again, 'She'.  Uhh....I don't know...here's another ten...that better be enough.  Sure enough it was eleven so I ended up getting 9 RMB in change.  I guess hearing actual people speak it is different then learning it...just something I need to get used to.  I thought it would sound like 'sure eee' for eleven.  But hers sounded more like 'she'.  Just need to get used to the quickness of it I guess.  I will try again tomorrow.

Zaijian,
Gary