Wood Factory

I'm feeling much better today :) I think I was just a bit tired and needed some good sleep. Our breakfast was good today too. I had some bread with strawberry jelly and an egg. I think Jack may have asked the cook for more of a Western style cuisine because lunch and dinner had french fries, chicken nuggets and some good radish with meat. It reminded me of my mom's cabbage soup. I haven't had any for a while because I’m always away at school and its too hot to eat soup during the summer in Texas, perhaps Christmas break this year. But anyways since the place we are staying at is a wood factory, we first took a tour of the exhibition center. All of the furniture was beautiful! The manager Jason Chuang even designed a chair with two legs. To be able to support the weight of a person, he said inside the wood there is metal.

All made out of bamboo

Next we went down to where the workers were in the factory. I immediately noticed that none of the workers were wearing gloves, proper shoes or goggles! Ahh insane. Tom and Robin even said that you would never see this in America, and I thought to myself yup because someone would sue the company for an injury or some mishap. I still can't believe the goggles part or even a face mask, because alot of sawdust was flying around and for some reason my right eye teared up two times today on separate occasions. It looked like I was crying. Maybe allergies?? The most exciting part of the day though was getting the opportunity to make our own bench! It was very labor intensive though in terms of time. Sanding, spraying a finish on it twice, and waiting to engrave the top part of the bench via laser engraving was time consuming. I originally wasn't going to do any of that but I figured that it would cost some money when I get back home, so I thought why not do it now. It was very fun but the only thing I regret is not changing my font and not putting my sentence in Chinese. I don't know what I was thinking :( ( another regret, but I still love it, plus a bunch of people liked my wood they said it looked really nice :)) I can't wait to put it together when I get back home :) 

p.s. one of the professor's husband had a shih tzu, but I think she was mixed with another breed. Ahh she was sooo cute!! Reminded me of Mia and Bigboy J I’ll try to get a picture next time.