Badminton and Stuff

There's a badminton tournament going on at work!  Well, it's not taking place at work, but we got to leave work and go to this little gynasium just big enough to fit three badminton courts yesterday afternoon.  Here's what the building looked like on the outside:

And here's the view from the second floor where the courts were:

So it was kind of in the middle of a crappy neighborhood.  Anyways, Adam played against Mr. Xu and won, although we suspect Mr. Xu let him win.

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I played against Beth, the translator that took Dreamer's spot when she left.  I lost, even though I wasn't as bad as I thought I'd be.  Beth was just better. 

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Adam will move on to the second round next Friday!  Instead of going back to work afterwards, we just had our driver pick us up at the courts.  But he drove down this crazy narrow alley and when he tried to get back out, he totally scraped his car against the walls and crunched up the front fender.  He didn't even care!  He was just like "meishi, meishi" which is like saying "no biggie".  He obviously doesn't own that car himself.

Our housekeeper made a new dish last night that's basically lima beans and chopped up bologna meat.  Usually she makes delicious food, but this time.... well Adam likes it.

She's made a dish before with potatoes and that same meat, and I swear it tastes just like bologna.  We were walking down the dog food aisle at the Carrefour last week and saw a can with a picture of sliced meat that looked exactly like it.  I'm pretty sure she wouldn't serve us dog food, but I thought it was funny. 

Today we had our last Guilford paid Chinese lesson.  No, we are not fluent now so don't ask.  We were moving too fast for our own good, anyways.  We got more than half way through the big book of Chinese grammer and it was really starting to get overwhelming.  So I think we'll just take this break, review everything over the summer, then maybe forge ahead later.  Here are some final pictures:

She wanted to hold Smudgie: