Cute Chinese Guy #3

Today was hectic. Considering that I usually just stay home and sleep or sit in front of the computer most of the time, today was pretty busy. I had to attend a meeting at 1:30 in the afternoon which I thought (and still think) was a stupid waste of time. The meeting was in Chinese and I didn't really care enough to understand and pay attention. Bored, I took out my notebook and started writing. One good thing about being in a country that speaks a different language is I never have to worry about people accidentally reading what I've written. Another is that I never have to pay attention to meetings such as that because nobody even expects me to understand anyway. Really, I didn't know why I even had to be there. Totally useless!

During the meeting, I was also passing notes with two other teachers. More appropriately, they were passing notes (in Chinese) to each other and I joined them. I asked for their little notebook and read what they've written. I was getting high school flashbacks while this was going on. Fun, really. Took me back to Chemistry class. In the first part, I recognized words like "lao gong" and "hao kan" so I asked whose husband was goodlooking. It turned out that they were talking about a coat that someone's husband bought and the coat was goodlooking, not any of the husbands. In the second part, I read "Ta zhe ci huei hou... (wang)" and did not understand the last two words before the name. I underlined these two words and put an arrow and wrote "bu ming bai" and gave it back to one of my note-passing friends. She wrote "more fat." Hmm, got it. They were talking about one of the other teachers who was getting fatter. Wow, it really was high school!

After the meeting, I went to my class. I had a new student who was home for the Spring Festival. That's cute Chinese guy number 3 for me. He's a senior at one of the universities in Beijing and will be graduating in June. He's taking up Computer Science and I'm sorry but for the life of me I can't remember his name now. The first time I saw him, I dismissed him as one of those nerdy and boring Chinese guys. In class though, he was nerdy but in a cute kind of nerdy way. And he had a sense of humor. And an adorable smile. And a nice voice. And a great complexion. Yes, in less than two hours, I could tell that he's extremely intelligent, funny, sensitive, charming, kindhearted, intuitive, maybe sweet. And he probably has a girlfriend. Sigh.

After class, my assistant and I had to go to a Spring Festival dinner for the teachers. As we're all going the same way, my assistant asked him to ride with us. I think she likes him too! I'm not really competitive about things like this. She can have him. I don't mind. :p

After class, he asked me if I'd heard of the Chinese aptitude test in Beijing for foreigners. I hadn't but it sounded interesting and I would like to take it one day just to see which level I'm in. We talked a little more in the cab. He said I should go to Beijing one of these days because it's a really nice place. Well, I do want to go there and take a look around. Plus, if I want to take formal classes in Chinese, I suppose that's the place to go. So anyway, I told him this and he excitedly said I should go and look for him. You should've seen how his face lit up, he was so cute!

No reason to get all excited though. He's only 23 (I know I know, three years isn't much but it still feels a little weird) and he's going back to Beijing after the winter break. So anyway, there goes cute guy number three.

After that dinner, I came home and checked my mails, all the usual stuff when Rain called. He's back! He went home for Christmas and also to renew his visa so he was gone for a month. This led to dinner number two. Now that he's back, I'm expecting my calendar to be a bit busier since he's the party organizer around here. He was saying that he was actually worried about my social life while he was gone. He knows how I can stay in front of the computer for hours and shut out the rest of the world. He most probably won't be teaching at WaiYan though because of problems with the headmaster which I can totally understand.

So finally, I'm home and writing. And I need to go to bed. I'm dozing off as I write this.