The first week of the semester is over. I got up at 5 a.m. I was making PPT slides for the conversation course in the morning hours. I finished making them and went outside my residence a little past noon. I went to the campus restaurant and ate ten boiled dumplings. It has been my habit to eat boiled dumplings on weekend since last semester. While waiting for the dumplings, I found there were two huge caldrons of free soup. I poured that soup into a bowl.
10 dumplings are good amount for my stomach. Probably 15 are too much and would make my afternoon a nightmare. When I got 10 hot dumplings, I took oily hot pepper sauce and vinegar to a small dish. But I was disappointed by the fact that grated fresh garlic was gone on the counter. Then I ate dumplings and soup. I saw several red lines in the soup. They were antennae of shrimps. The soup was taste of shrimp.
When I finished my lunch, I went outside campus for shopping. I wanted to buy foods for coming week. I always come to the same shop in the town. People there know my face. What I bought today were; green vegetable, green beans, two carrots, white mushroom, five pears, five citrus oranges, three blocks of pork, and 5kg of rice. On the ways of go-and-back, I saw many vendors were selling strawberries. I was just wondering why there were so many strawberries were being sold on roadside in this time, because the season was still very early spring. When I grew strawberries by myself in my garden several years ago, the season of strawberry was late spring. The strawberries I saw today must be grown up in greenhouses. I didn’t want to buy them because I had already bought pears and oranges.
I took a nap for two hours in my room after coming back from shopping. Probably my fatigue had accumulated more than I thought. Anyway, once I got up from the bed, I started working again. I continued to make PPT slides for listening course by the time of cooking supper. I boiled green beans and ate them with mayonnaise. That was my Saturday.
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