ICE CUBE

Day Six: First Class by Professor Wei, Dynasty Winery, College Dinning Hall, and food market by the hotel.
-The fist lecture was amazing. Professor Wei did a great job. I loved how enthusiastic he was about the topics at hand. If he taught at UMD, I would love to take a full class with him. After class we went to eat at the dining hall, this was the first time I had to order food in China and it was a little over whelming. Before this, we have had meals prepared for us and we eat family style as a group, not this time. The dining hall looked like a mall food court, you could choose from so many different dishes. This made it very hard and it was hard to communicate which food I wanted. I really wanted to try a noodle dish because a man was behind the counter making all the noodles by hand for each order. It looked amazing! I could not communicate what toppings that I wanted though so I had to eat somewhere else. I decided to go somewhere where I could just point at a dish and they would make it for you. This technique worked out perfectly because my lunch was amazing! Another thing that I was surprised about is that I didn't get a drink, but to my surprise I did. The hot bowl with objects floating objects in it was my hot tea. Let me remind you that it is about 70 degrees outside. This is very common in China and they usually drink hot beverages all day long. They do not have ice and they do not keep pop refrigerated. Everything you drink is usually warm. Something that doesn't bother me but I will appreciate an ice cube when I get back to Minnesota!