Shandong University is split into six campuses which are spread across the city of Jinan. I'm on the Western campus with the medical students. In other words, I'm on the nerdy campus. These guys are stuck in school for five years instead of four, and seem to enjoy waking up at the crack of dawn to stand outside in the cold memorizing the names of body parts in a variety of languages.
Luckily, we are just a fifteen minute walk away from the Southern campus. The students in the Southern campus are...wait for it...gym majors. In other words, they're a bunch of tall hunky guys with a lot of free time. Many of my med student friends were busy this weekend, so I was more than a little excited to receive a call from a gym major friend of mine inviting me to accompany him and his equally hunky roommate on a two day hike up a famous mountain.
Um, yes please!
I had two days of nervous anticipation (which jacket? how many snacks? which backpack?). And then, in the middle of the night, waking me up from a pleasant dream, I got a text. Cancelling! I was disappointed, but fine, whatever, things come up. This afternoon, however, my insecurities went on red alert when I got a call from one of the guys asking if he could borrow my camera for the weekend. Gee, what could you need my camera for? I was polite and all, but seriously? No way my camera is going up that mountain if I'm not!
The kicker came this evening, with another text "clearing things up". I guess they realized they'd botched things up with the camera question. And I'm not sure if I feel better or worse for knowing the real reason for getting voted off the island. This is the text I received (translated, of course):
Alexis - I'm so sorry, originally we wanted to go together, with my roommate too, but now he's not going and I can't watch out for two girls all by myself. Climbing the mountain is extremely difficult. It's too bad about this time, there will be another chance soon.
So apparently, being a girl, I'm too weak to make it up the mountain without help. Hm. Yeah. Even though I know this is like, the Chinese way and all, I still pretty much just wanted to punch him. I don't get to go because they think I'm a pathetic weakling?? Hmph. He's skinny - I could totally take him. But, you know what? Whatevs. Instead? Tomorrow I get free sweet potatoes, and on Sunday I'm going to the all-boys campus where they wish they could go mountain climbing with girls. So there.
3 comments:
wait- i think you should text them back and say that you take kick boxing. you are no weakling! you would probably be carrying them up the mountain. but seriously- their loss!
your posts really make me laugh! i love them!
I ditto Alison!! Yeah, the gym majors are pathetic and lame. A double crime.
The irony is that I spent the weekend sick in bed, so they were right after all. I guess I'm the lame one. :P
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