The Return to the Meet

Today was a dramatically important day filled with very important happenstances. 

Actually, it was more like just a normal day in which I met with Amber.  But that in itself is pretty important considering that we haven’t met for several weeks now.  Communication was slow, then there was fall break, then I was like “holy crap semester’s almost over” and so I texted her and she texted me back and I texted her back and she texted me back and I said cool and then we met up today.

So yeah, that’s how that happened.  We met up in the BLUU once again.  I got there a few minutes early, and when Amber arrived she snuck up behind me and scared me.  She has a good sense of humor.  Haha.  Hilarious.  

Seeing as how Halloween was last night we started off on that topic.  She was very disappointed in me for not doing anything and that in turn made me pretty disappointed in myself.  She, on the other hand, had a very active Halloween, doing stuff around campus and then going to a haunted house with some friends and dinner afterward.  The haunted house scared her pretty bad because in China the haunted houses don’t have real people walking around, just machines and stuff.  Thus the people popping out gave her serious scares.

Then we got into school.  Just love talking about school.  Found that her classes and whether she moves forward in the program or not is dependant more on a continual status, rather than test grades and whatnot.  Which sounds kinda nice, but also like it would be a lot more pressure day to day.  I think I’ll stick with tests.  That way I at least have the opportunity to cram and fail rather than continually fail day after day.  Something that I am most certainly not doing.  Why would you think such a thing?  I would never cram and fail!  Cram and succeed, now that’s an entirely different story.  Keep in mind though that so long as I do succeed, that’s what really matters.

The schoolwork took us back to the topic of Watership Down which I had given to her on our last meet, if you so happen to remember the last post concerning this event.  It being a pretty long book, she was unable to begin it as she has to read a new book each four weeks.  Actually turns out that there is a movie for the book, an animated one.  I was not aware of this fact, so now I gotta watch the movie to see how much they butchered it.  Anyhow, books brought us to Tarzan and at first she didn’t know what I was talking about.  Then I got to the part where it was a Disney movie and the light bulb went off over her head.  The book is an amazing work, I might add here, for all you ignorant people who also were not aware that the movie is based off a book.  The movie is nothing like the book, and the only reason that is in any way acceptable is because it was made by Disney.  If a serious movie was made following the book, it would have to be R if any degree of authenticity was desired.

Anyway, back on topic.  Somehow books turned into weather and we discovered that China went by Celsius rather than Fahrenheit.  So I was talking about how it was going to be sixty degrees for the game tomorrow and she was rather disbelieving.  We compared phone weather apps and hers said around 10 degrees tomorrow.  Metric system, Celsius, bleh.

Then a guy walked by dressed like he was going on a safari or something and he was carrying was look like a pellet rifle.  That surprised Amber a bit, because in China no guns whatsoever are allowed.  If they find even a few bullets on you it’s jail time for a year or two.  Five years if you have an actual firearm.  And then each extra count (two guns, three guns, etc) doubles the sentence.  So when I told her that most Texans own at least one gun and that it is legal to carry them around in cars and whatnot she was even more surprised.  She had heard from someone that if there was a burglar in your house you were legally excused for shooting that person, so we discussed that a bit.  It was a foreign concept to her all around, while I couldn’t imagine not being able to play with guns.

It was at that point that I had to get to work.  We set up our next meet there so that we wouldn’t have another three week gap and then said our farewells.