I want to apologize for my lack of consistency thus far, but I had a rather large problem arise. Last Thursday in the mid-morning, me, a classmate and a teacher headed into town to bargain with street vendors as part of a class exercise. I won the competition by buying the most food with the least money. After buying the fruit you see in the picture, I set it on the middle shelf of my desk and jetted off to my next class.
Come Saturday me and my classmates headed to Xianglu Shan (sorry, I forget the translation now) for an all day trip of hiking. I will explain more about this interesting trip later. Anyway, we were gone from 9:00am to 6:30pm. I certainly had every intention of putting the fruit in the refrigerator, but it was too crowded and I didn't want to waste the food. So, arriving back later that day, I find a bunch of gnats circling a puddling mess of fruit juice. It seems the heat over the past two days was just too much for it. The smell was downright disgusting.
So okay, no big deal, just clean it up right? Well it wouldn't have been a problem if my computer wasn't on the shelf below. At first, I thought it just hit the top (it was closed) and made a mess on the casing. No, it actually seeped through the cracks. So what did I do? Naturally I turned it on to see if it worked (the screen flickered and then went out and the mouse didn't work).
After talking to a few of my Chinese friends, they figured the best thing to do would be to go to the HP repair shop on Monday (a convenient 5 minute walk from the dorm). So yesterday a friend took me, and of course I wasn't in the greatest mood. Well it got much better when I had the HP person tell me that it didn't look good for 3 reasons: 1) I turned it on when it was all wet inside 2) I didn't take the battery out when it happened and 3) I didn't unplug it when I realized the problem. Not only did I turn it on, I turned it on multiple times.
Thus, now my injured third arm resides at the HP service shop until it dries out (could be Wednesday or later). They can't even diagnose the problem until then. And it's not completely the cost (could be $700+ if it affected the hard drive) that worries me, it's just as much the effect it's having on my studying. So other than that apple that Adam and Eve ate in Genesis that stole innocence from mankind, I'd say this watermelon is right up there for most expensive ever.
As I'm bumming a computer right now from a friend who will need it when he gets back from dinner, I better jet. Sorry if parts of this post are disconnected or sound like a four year old composed it (notice the plethora of "so"), but I was in a hurry. The posts could be scarce until I get my lost appendage back.
By the way, for those who were having trouble posting, all of them are up there now, I just had to confirm them. I will turn this option off, since I don't have easy computer access. Hope things are going better in the States!
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