My medical Chinese class is really starting to kick my ass, since I scored 87% on my last exam partly because I mistook the pancreas for the gall-bladder; embarassingly enough, it was the English definitions that confused me, not the language barrier. But I'm also seeing results. When we interviewed cancer patients on Friday, with Dr. Zhang translating for us, I managed to pick up "chemotherapy", "pancreas", "radiotherapy", "knee", "benign", and "malignant"; all these words I've acquired in the last two weeks. YAY!
Memorizing parts of the body and the face.
It's warm and sunny - and windy and changeable.
Currently, I've got some sort of gan mao, a cold - my guess is excess wind and heat. As usual, they're urging me to see a doctor, but, as usual, I'm holding strong to my refusal and eating fruit, avoiding alcohol, and drinking lots of water. I just wish they wouldn't nag...
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