Today shall be known as The
Day I Ate Baby Shrimp. We took a taxi to work again today because we were
running late. Lucas has been really tired and not wanting to get up in the
morning. After I got him to childcare, I went to my meetings.
At lunch, Lucas and I walked over to the Chinese restaurant
next to school so I could order some of the broccoli I got the other day, and
some vegetarian dumplings. I was sure to ask for vegetarian dumplings and got
to speak to a worker show spoke some English today. While the food was cooking, we walked over to
State Grid to put 400 quai on the electricity card. When we got back, it was
ready, so we picked it up and went back to school to have lunch. Lucas had his
customary peanut butter and apples for lunch again and I got him a soda as a
treat.
When we got to school, I ate one of my dumplings (it tasted
a tad different than I remembered) then I ate my broccoli. I took a bite from
another dumpling and saw something that looked funny. At first I thought it was
maybe the end of a veggie, but when I looked closer, it kind of looked like a
shrimp. I stopped eating because I really was NOT sure. When I took Lucas back
to childcare, I asked Ruta if she wanted them because I thought they had meat.
Marlena looked at it and said, “oh, ya, that’s baby shrimp.” UGH!!! After I got back to my meeting, I shared this
and Kyra said that they will often put the shrimp in there. Someone else told
me that they often don’t think of seafood as “meat” and it will still often be
seafood in “vegetarian” things.
Things I learned today: Be more specific when I am asking
for vegetarian foods.
Things I took for granted: Being able to read food
descriptions and ask for things with NO meat products and be understood.
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