Day Seventeen

Last night one of the Sichaun University students, Salem, invited the USC guys to come over in the morning an play basketball before morning classes. Salem brought along his friends Rex and Deng, who together thoroughly kicked our ass in a game of three on three. After our game I picked up the laundry I had dropped off at the university a couple days before.

We came back to the hotel and jumped in the pool to cool down and then went to Pizza Hut for lunch, (my fourth time since I've been in China!). After lunch we met up with our professor to go to a Chengdu hospital where a man named Gregory Yingnien Tsang gave a lecture on smoking cessation to hospital staff. Before we left the hospital we were given a brief tour of the tobacco cessation department at the hospital.

To end the day we debriefed at the hotel and then went to a traditional Hot Pot dinner. Hot pot is a dining experience in which there is a boiling pot of oil in the middle of the table and various dishes are brought with foods to cook in the oil. It really isn't called hot pot for nothing, in fact it was probably the spiciest food I've eaten in my life. By the end of the meal I was sweating up a storm from all the hot peppers and oil. It's been a long day, night!