"you look boring"

I am floored by how much we cram in to one day. It literally feels like this morning was at least three days ago. Started off today with another run--tried a different route this time and ended up scaling a freaking mountain of a hill..in 85+ degree heat...all before 730 in the morning. The weather here is insane. After showering (in the still cold/broken shower), we had breakfast which was something that I think was called an egg cake; it tasted like an eggy crepe with some canadian bacon in it. My stomach, feeling funny from my culinary adventures in the night market, could only handle a few bites. From there we went to class, which was FASCINATING. I had my doubts about three hours of straight learning, but I honestly could have sat there for the whole day and not gotten bored. Our lecturer was Dr. H, and he taught us about Chinese Orthopaedics and Traumatology. The first thing he did was give us a crash course in resuscitative accupressure, which apparently is the first thing you have to know before you can learn accupuncture. He demonstrated accupuncture on Hannah, who is about 6 months out of an ACL replacement surgery-the traditional application of accupuncture reduced her pain by 100%! Can someone please tell me why in the world we do not practice this widely in the US?! Amazing. He also demonstrated cupping, which is another pain management therapy. I got the chance to experience it, which was so cool! Cupping is the placement of glass cups on pressure points on the body, after all the air has been sucked out of them by a flame. It stimulates the pressure point which alleviates some of the pain. Dr. H also briefly touched on Chi, Yin and Yang, and Meridians, but we will learn about that later. pain
my leg
all better!
For lunch we went to a Japanese restaurant where we all had variations of fried porkchops. Pretty good, but still wasn't really into eating. They feed us so much! After lunch we headed back to NTSU to learn about emergency operating procedures and the athletic training room orientation. They have a lot of the same machines and modalities as we do (they also are allowed to do traction, we are not), and after getting a feel of things we played some balance games with the NTSU students. I got paid some major compliments during this time. One student came up to me and asked me if I was tired. I said yes, but asked why. She said "you have bags under your eyes". cute. Another one of my buddies came up to me as I was trying not to nod off and said "you look boring". come again?!?! I realized he actually meant bored, not boring. But still.
We headed back upstairs for dinner, took a quick break, and returned for two hours of tai chi. We learned how to do tai chi with a fan which is wayyyyy harder than I expected. The "master" we learned from is a national champion in tai chi which was pretty intimidating, but it was definitly fun trying to do what she did. After the tai chi exercises we need what seemed to me like an aerobic dance class which apparently focuses the chi. This was a little easier for me, but made me sad because I'm missing wednesday night hip hop :( I was absolutely famished when I got back, and since I pretty much skipped dinner I had the ever healthy dinner of 2 fiber one bars and a nalgene full of water.
I'm pretty much falling asleep on the computer right now, so I'm going to wash up and go to bed! busy day tomorrow--first day of clinical! yaya