On Wednesday I met a Chinese English teacher named Jenny. She's crazy but nice. She does things that dont make sense and drive me nuts but Im still glad I made friends with her. She's really funny actually. She loves Seinfeld. We went to a dvd store together and I bought a bunch of movies, which was a really good idea BECAUSE I had 2 of my wisdom teeth pulled the next day. Even though the volume didn't work on all of the episodes, I watched the first two seasons of Heros.
First though, Jenny helped me talk to the teachers at the school across from campus. There is a preschool there and I often visit, but can't communicate with the teachers. I brought Jenny with me on Wednesday to the school to make a card with the kids to send to the preschool back home. It was fun.
Ok, next...Jenny told me about a dentist in Linyi. I have been wanting to get my wisdom teeth pulled and thought, why not do it in China? Its cheaper here and I don't have insurance back home. So, on Thursday Jenny took me to her dentist office. It was very different from a dentist office back home, but pulling teeth didn't seem that complicated to me so I went for it. They would only pull two teeth at once, which I don't really understand but I'll go back next week to have the other two out.
It cost about fifty dollars total and it didn't take long. They didn't knock me out or anything though, they just numbed my mouth. It was kinda cool but a little scary. I could hear the tooth rip out of my my gums. They also just pulled the entire thing out without breaking it up first. Lets just say it took some major elbow grease. The dentist was old but strong. And when they finally had both teeth out they showed me. I couldn't help but laugh, the teeth are monstrous! And then they gave me medicine for the bleeding and inflammation. I asked for pain killer, but they didn't think I would need it.......??? When the anesthesia wore off I def needed pain medicine...
It wasn't the most comfortable experience but I'll go back to get the other teeth out. Ha, you never know what each day will bring. I'm glad I ran into Jenny, but to be honest she wasn't really helpful in the dentist office. No paperwork...she only asked if I had allergies or HIV? And she drives sooooo slow, which is annoying when you are on the back of the bike with a swollen face wishing you could get back to campus as fast as possible. I guess since there aren't really speed limits people just drive at whatever speed they want and Jenny drives dangerously slow. Worse than taxis...and then she wasn't paying attention and actually drove past the campus gate. I was so tempted to just jump off the bike because she was going slow anyways. It was nice of her to go with me though. She even held my hand which really helped when I heard all of the crunching of my teeth being pulled. What a bizarre day.
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