Café Con Monica

Ooh Monday….

First I want to send a big welcome to all the new followers! I may be a bit slow but I plan to check out all your blogs! 


This past weekend was a bit sad as the semester ends this Friday so we had a night out with the foreigners before everyone goes there own way. So sad that GCGirl and Saffer are leaving me!! I didn’t cry but we had a great meal, lots of laughs and yummy wine! 

Sunday I ran errands and started making a giant mess clearing my apartment up to prep for summer camp. 

I was having a rough hair day…well actually I really didn’t want to comb my hair that day so it was a day old and I was trying to figure out how to make it work. Anyway I will seriously miss these girls!

It was a great night though a bit sad saying bye to these great people I have met this year. 

How was your weekend?? 



Cupping!

I’ve wanted to try cupping for a while now and figured I would do it in China but next thing you know you have been here 11 months and you still haven’t done it. I finally convinced the girls we should try the place nearest to us which has blind people giving massages and they have other things like cupping as well…

*side note: we got to the place expecting to mime out that we wanted massages and cupping only to find the guy at the front desk was blind and didn’t speak any English. Pretty damn funny. 

Anyway. All this working out we have been doing has us all kind of beat up and so we decided to try this. I’ve read good things about how it helps rid your body of built up toxins and Saffer just wanted to try it out to see how it felt. I was terrified watching them do hers! 

Here are some pics in case you aren’t sure what the heck I am even talking about: 

 

What our backs looked like after! 

We were both a bit sore in some spots for a day or two. For me it was the tops of my shoulders and the darkest spot on my left side(middle of my back) that were problem areas and they were very sore for a couple days but after that they started to feel so much better. 

This is 5 days later! They are fading pretty quickly

I’d like to do it again soon but the marks are not really so great for summer time weather. So I might wait until it cools down again. 

Have you tried this before? 
What were your results?

Hump Day!!

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This past weekend GCGirl, Saffer & I went to Hong Kong for what might be the last time and did some shopping and just hanging out. We took the ferry from our town for the first time and after we got off the ferry and past the border control I realized I left my cell phone on the boat. FREAKING OUT. I tried to cross back but they wouldn’t let me, gave me a number to call in the morning. I was beyond stressed and I tried calling 3 different times and telling them they I  knew exactly what seats I dropped it between and that they had to actually go to the seats and look. Of course, they finally called me back to say they couldn’t find it. Then we get to the docks to ride the ferry back and get on the boat. Saffer suggested I go check the seats just in case its the same boat and guess what? There was my phone stuck between the two seats I told them it would be. I could not have been luckier and that was probably the most exciting thing to have happened to me in the past month! Haha ook so yea….

I try to always visit Hard Rock when I go somewhere..its  become a new thing so  the girls were more than happy to stop there and get some western food and drinks with me! 
The first proper western breakfast I have had in a whole damn year!!! 
The Starbucks in HK had Red Bean Green Tea muffins so I had to try one! It was not as good as the drink though 🙁

Wish I had taken more photos but my camera is still broken from that trip in Jan/Feb and my Iphone was gone so yep!

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