#2 'Wo Bu Yao Dou Sha'

Today was business as usual at school - we found out that our study leave SUCKS due to political issues with ofsted, which in effect means we have 5 days of study leave to revise for over 15 exams 0_0. 


Lately I have been kind of addicted to reading the blog 'Chalk and Chopsticks' - link is at the bottom if you're interested. It's about two Canadian people who moved to Dalian in China for one year to teach English. It's really interesting to read all about China and how they are adjusting, I'm learning quite a lot actually and it's getting me really excited for when I go to China this summer with friends, not only that but we are going to Dalian too! Happy times :P 


I learnt about the moon festival today,there is a legend in China of a woman called Chang E and her husband, Hou Yi. Apparently in ancient China there used to be 10 suns, which was bad for the country as it was drying up rivers and burning crops, so as Hou Yi was the only one strong enough, he shot down 9 of the suns with his arrow. As a reward for this the God's granted him the pill of immortality, however his wife, Chang E, stole the pill and took it for herself, which caused her to turn into a goddess, but as punishment for stealing the rest of the God's made her stay on the moon with only a rabbit for company. To this day she is supposedly still up there and on the 15th and 8th lunar day of the traditional Chinese calendar the moon looks particularly bright because that's the only times her husband can go and visit her.. - Well that is one version anyway! 


After learning all about the legend I was all interested in random aspects of Chinese culture - so I bugged my Chinese friends for about half an hour asking persistent questions when they were trying to revise.. oops!  


What Did I Learn Today?
- Chinese Legend
- How to say I don't want bean paste 'wo by yao dou sha'
- 'Tu vois/sais ce que je veux dire' You see what I am saying?


Did I learn anything from the 5 lessons I had today? Nada xD


When I got home Mum and Issie were making cakes together, super cute! They made a big lemon cake and muffins that taste.. interesting, once you rip them out of the cases xD 

I decided to have a relax session with a nice hot bath, face mask (yes another one!) and a book - it was heaven! I don't normally have baths but when I do I spend ages in them (2 hours I believe tonight?). I bought Twilight on the kindle especially so I could get lost in the story, I haven't read Twilight for ages so I quite fancied a reread. 




Before I end this, just thought I would quickly show my other face mask, this one is probably just as weird as the last one but at least this one comes in a bottle! 

It's called Daiso Charcoal Mask, it's Japanese so I can't really tell you much else from the description - but I think it has charcoal components inside.. 

Basically you smooth it all over your skin...

Then about 15 minutes later when it's dry, you peel it off! It's like one of those nose strips that suck away all of the bad stuff in your skin, but for your whole face!

It's pretty cool if I am honest - and your skin feels really smooth and clean afterwards :) 


Anyway I'm off, it's not almost 10:30pm and I still need to do my English homework! (I wonder if writing a blog in English could be considered English revision?.. )


P.S My funky green face mask from last night worked quite well! I think I might have put too much honey into it though I couldn't move my face once it had dried!!


Link to Chalk and Chopsticks!