I've got to be honest and say that I've been experiencing quite a bit of homesickness. I just miss all my friends and family so much! Especially my adorable little grandma. I miss it not being 90 degrees with 85% humidity everyday. I miss the mountains. And I miss drinkable tap water.

But I know I just need to push all of that out of my mind and push forward. I'm still on the job hunt. Applying to a bunch of ads that I've been finding online, but tomorrow I think Im going to go in person to a few more teaching agencies and see if I'll have any luck there. I really am having a severe moral dilemma about whether or not I should tell schools that I am only half or 3/4 Asian. On one hand, I dont think that its really that big of a deal to lie about since its not changing how good of a teacher or a speaker I am. But on the other hand, its just the principle of the matter. Why should I have to lie just in order to get a job. WHAT I LOOK LIKE SHOULDN'T MATTER! so frustrating. Anyways, I also started applying to non-teaching jobs. I found a few interesting ones, but in order not to jynx myself I am not going to give any details here. If I get a job, THEN I will rave about it here.

So besides being on the job hunt Ive been plenty busy getting fat. Haha the food here is just so good! And I have so few things to do! Today all I did was go tutor one student. haha I guess maybe I should see if I can get a few more tutoring students for the time being... I enjoy tutoring but it really can be frustrating as well. Yaya the student I had today has pretty good english but she just doesn't want to sit down and learn. Her Dad really only wants me to practice speaking with her. Yaya would much rather spend the entire hour painting. In fact she painted a picture of me today then bursted out laughing. She then said "It's so funny! It's so funny! I drew a cartoon of you!" and indeed... the painting did look much more like a cartoon than myself. The one part of her painting that I wish i actually looked like was my blue eyes. Haha if only..... Yaya is super sweet and everyday she asks me to stay and eat lunch at her house. Its definitely an Asian culture thing to always offer people tons of food. And its almost considered rude to say no (remember that the next time your at an asian persons house and they keep offering you food). Yaya has 3 ayi's which are basically Chinese housekeepers/nannys/cooks/whatevertyouwantthemtobe. The food they cook is always great. Reminds me a lot of my Mom's cooking! And they always say that Im not eating enough even if Ive eaten a huge bowl of rice already. I have to say its a pretty sweet gig. Paid to tutor a cute girl for an hour and then free lunch? done deal!

OH! and I cant believe i forgot to mention this in my subway post. the BEST thing about Shanghai subways... they have full cell service on the trains!!! AMAZING!