Ice Ice Baby

One thing that I am missing over here is ice. I think that the Chinese people view it as wasteful and coming from a culture that spends most of its time drinking tea, I understand that. For us foreigner though, we miss ice. Not only do we drink a majority of our drinks cold but we even have drinks like slushy's, smoothies, parrot ice(my favorite) that are made up of mostly ice.

I have been around Chinese people at restaurants and who have asked for their drinks without ice. I asked them why (these people spoke English so that's how I asked) and they said that the ice was too cold and hurt their teeth.

You don't know what you have until it's gone and as the weather heats up I don't have an abundance of ice. Most of my drinks are tepid at best (sorry, always looking for a good time to through tepid into a sentence). There is no going to the store and buying a bag of ice here, no filling up a cooler with ice and your favorite beverage, mine being Dr. Pepper of course. All in all there is no ice, only the occasional drink at Pizza Hut or McDonalds.

Well, that's all I have today, but I would like to send out a good luck to all of those taking finals and a congratulations to all of those graduating.