My Chinese Girlfriend

Hopefully telling all you about this will make it not such a big deal.

One reason I was excited to come to China was because I would be able to completely cut out a piece of my life that has been the biggest part of my life for the past 9-10 months: girls. For the past 10 months, I have been noticing girls; and whether or not I'm really interested in asking her out, I turn the knob from DK mode to flirting mode. DK mode is the friendly, congenial, bubbly Derrick that you have all come to know and love. All the girls here in my group, however, sort of burned out the flirting mode before I could even click that knob over from DK mode.

Before I came to China, Rick (the teacher in whom I'm daily losing trust) gave my email to one of the brighter of his students. It took me a few days, but I finally found some time in my busy schedule away from taking naps and watching the $.60 movies to give this student a call and meet face to face.

Well, turns out this student, who's a girl by the way, is a stud. She's very intelligent and mature. She makes all these other students look like... not very intelligent or mature people. Not only that, but a buddy of mine in the group from the US has been hanging out with us and another girl, and he DID come here to find a girlfriend. So he's pressing me to be more friendly to my email partner. Luckily, he's also not very intelligent or mature, so I don't listen to him. Also luckily, I'm in frickin' China with 2 weeks left. That's a big safety blanket.

So, Mom, don't worry. I'm not going to bring home a Chinese girlfriend.