I went to atlanta for thx giving. I had planned to stay here, eat turkey at sunny's house with other international students. But I changed my mind in last minute. It sounds sad to stay at school alone for thx giving. Thanks to my wise decision, it's warm and happy preparing thx giving dinner with my aunt at her house. After dinner, I didn't have the energy and motivation rushing to the huge thx giving sales in all stores, although they were really great deals. I did drive around those stores trying to catch the excite, and found that Indian people were always in the first tier of the line in almost every store. :P I didn't get up early for the black friday shopping either, but still got some good stuff in the afternoon. I also bought a cute tiny polo shirt for tao's baby. But this was just the preface... I moved from athens to atlanta on friday nite, and stayed at xiaojing's new bought condo. It's modern and delicate. I guess xiaojing has some very qualities that i may never have for my life. She is a person with great passion to life and to "quality" of life. This does not have much to do with how much you earn or how ambitious you are. It's an attitude. Even when we were in changping campus, xiaojing's bed was the most delicate and cozy one. She likes to spend time and energy to optimize her quality of life wherever she is. Anyway, at her aparment, she and her b/f would served me some fruit with plates with good texture and beautiful patterns and cut the fruit into small pieces of nice shape. If at home, I would just eat the fruit over the sink because I would not bother to clean one more plate. ;P On Saturday, we went shopping in an outlet near atlanta. We filled up xiaojing's car with shoes, bags, clothes, scarves, cosmetic products...and were very satisfied with our output. The most amazing thing was i got a chance to eat very authentic Tianjin Jianbingguozi in atlanta. When I took the first bite, I was almost moved into tears... this jianbingguozi totally changed my previous impression of atlanta when i first got there last year. Xiaojing said it's weird for me as a girl from chengdu to favor stuff made of flour badly, I think in this sense, i do have a northern stomach. I like noodle, buns, shaobing, steam bread..., if not more than at least as much as sichuan or southern cuisine.