Wednesday, September 2, 2009

Orientation (except in the digestive region)

Orientation consisted of Bao Jun reading things that we already knew (or should have already known; thank you W&J). Ben and I met a bunch of California Students in our program. That was good because we chilled with them all day and found out about how much we should have known prior to arriving. Nothing tragic; we can still register, but it is a huge pain in the butt.

I'm back on a regular sleep pattern, but my stomach is still in shambles. I am keeping everything down, but I just feel completely awful after I eat anything but cookies. It is likely the combination of my body adjusting to the 12 hour time difference, not running as much as I usually do, being stressed, being hungry, eating very different food, and high air pollution. It is a great combination. I'll run out of my huge bottle of pepto at this rate...

By the way, although if you look off into the distance in the afternoon it gets a bit hazy, the pollution doesn't seem too bad to me. The big air quality problem is the nasty smell of stale food and sewage that eminates from the street drains.

1 comment:

  1. Glad you haven't died yet Howard.

    You're not quite as funny as Pensblog, but you have time.

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