Badminton & a fight at the grocery store

So, nothing majorly exciting happened at school today, but we did have a rocking time playing badminton after school got out.  Pat, Dan and I headed over to a sports club, and for $6, we got to play badminton for an hour and a half.  And for all you folks out there who are laughing at the fact that we played badminton, the Chinese people here (as opposed to us Americans) are damn good.  It was actually really cool… it would be fun to be able to do something like this in the states, but that’ll never happen… we’d get charged like $50 for half an hour of court time or something.  Nothing like an hour and a half of exercise in the heat (open windows in the indoor gymnasium (sp?))… we were drenched in sweat, and that was on a cool day (the weather has been great the past couple of days, no stifling heat and humidity).  The shower I took after I got home was awesome…. best shower ever.

The only other interesting thing during the evening was the fight at the grocery store.  We had stopped by to grab some munchies, and these two women got into this huge yelling and screaming match, which devolved into pushing and hitting, which devolved into hair pulling and rolling on the floor.  Quite the spectacle… not what you usually see in the states.  We just get robberies for the most part, not fights.  Guess that’s what happens when the neighborhood grocery store really is the neighborhood grocery store and you have lots of people spending lots of time together.  Interesting, to say the least.

Other than that, just spend a lot of time correcting papers and chatting with Wendy and Jeff.  Now time for bed… only two days of classes left.