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Day 19 of the skeeter bites 19:18 Wednesday, Aug. 09, 2006 The bites I've gotten thanks to the mosquitoes have gotten exponentially worse as the trip has progressed. I believe they have actually become immune, if not partial, to my insect repellent. If this is not the case, then the insect repellent wears off very quickly and I don't like to reapply a lot because it contains deet. I don't know what this substance does to a person, but I hear it's not good. The bottle also recommends that you wash off the repellent as soon as you are indoors, but the problem is that indoors is where they attack me. The first few days I was good in the hood. One day I forgot to put on the repellent and they got me, but those bites didn't swell up. I thought maybe my skin was not going to react the way it usually does. I got a few bites every once in a while but they were all minor. It was not until last week after my first day of shopping in Dong Guan that I began to suffer the pain of the bites. They were extremely itchy and began to swell up and it was so painful, yet still itchy. WAH! They swelled down a little during the night because I had put some Chinese meds that my sister gave me on them. Not much time passed before I had the pampering day and that night was the night I got attacked most, I think. That was the night the power went out, so there was no fan and no AC, which are the prime tools of keeping most of the buggers away. They swelled up a lot yesterday before dinner while I was playing Mahjong and they're still swollen now. I can't wear any shoes besides my flipflops because there are huge bites on the tops of both feet. The one on my left foot is so intense that it even hurts to walk. Cry. Maybe I should sleep in the mosquito tent. Oh and another thing is that they're silent predators so I don't even know when they're nearby. Anyways, today I went to this farm.. It was kinda cool. Everything they ate for lunch, which included chicken, some kinda vegetable-y melon, duck, beans, fish, some other stuffs..was fresh from that farm. The place we sat in and stuff was like this wooden house-like thing over a pond and there were a couple boats to paddle around in, but I didn't get to go because we left early. There's sort of a little peninsula in the lake where the chickens and ducks are raised and in and all around the pond were different kinds of edible plants. It was pretty cool. The gross thing about bodies of water in China, though, is that they're like a muddy brown color and you can't see anything below the surface. The beach water wasn't like that, but that is technically not "in" China but on the shore of it. haha. Yesterday I finished reading Pride and Prejudice! Yes, I do like to read for fun sometimes. I was very sad to be finished with it because I liked it so much. I kept making comparisons in my head between the movie and the book as I read along, since I saw the movie first, which I also loooved. I thought it did the book justice, even though there are a lot of differences and they don't address a lot of important things, but Matthew MacFadyen (who only seems to look good in this movie o_O) as the handsome Mr. Darcy allows me to excuse it. haha. I was almost convinced that I saw him on the airplane I was on coming here, but I didn't get close enough to hear him speak, so I don't know if it was him. Anywho, back to the book. Jane's character sort of annoyed me because she couldn't see bad in anyone and she was always making excuses for people, but I think if I knew her in real life, I'd probably like her because she's so nice. The Mr. Bingley in the book wasn't as likeable as the one in the movie because he didn't get all jittery and nervous, which was what made him so much cuter. Other than that, I love the book and movie so so much, even though the ending of the movie (that I saw in the theaters, at least) was entirely made up (but it made me love it all the more). I figured that if they included too many characters and went into depth more about some of the main events, then the movie would be too long and cost too much. But the story does surprise me because I find it hard to believe that you can think that you're in love only after a few months of knowing each other, in which you see one another maybe once or twice a week and that confessing love also came with an offer of marriage from the guy. If that were like today, I think 99.999% of couples would divorce. Is it because of the fact that back then they were at home most of the time so they didn't meet members of the opposite sex much? How is that they were so sure? That's so nuts. I think I would end up like Lydia and get stuck with jerky Mr. Wickham because I kinda suck at this game. haha <back<-->fwd> 5 most recent entries: I'm a thought criminal - Tuesday, Aug. 21, 2007 Moving away again! - Friday, Oct. 27, 2006 My reaction to Flavor of Love - Saturday, Oct. 21, 2006 Late night confusion! - Friday, Oct. 20, 2006 Bill and the couple drama across the quad - Wednesday, Oct. 18, 2006 |
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