Head... is... freezing.

So the weeks following the events described in my last post have been eventful. After my dad's surgery it was decided that he should do 6 rounds of chemotherapy. About two weeks after the first round his hair was starting to falling off whenever he touched it so he decided to just get it over with and shave it off. Mike, Spencer, and I also shaved our heads as a sign of solidarity. Then when the rest of his hair fell out a few days later I decided I might as well bic mine just this once since I'll never have as good an opportunity again (hopefully). So, now I've got no hair and that's why my head is cold. Picture follows. No laughing.

P.S. That is my genetic engineering final report in the background.

Ok... So, the thing I was referencing actually happened almost a month ago I've just been really bad about getting around to writing about it. I wanted to do something special for 11/11/11 something that I would probably never do again in my life. So the decision that was eventually come to was to put on a public performance of Romeo and Juliet. And because 11/11 is Single's Awareness Day in China we decided to limit the cast to single men, which also had the advantage of being very Shakespearean. Knowing that we would undoubtedly attract a lot of attention we decided to take advantage of the publicity and make the production a fundraiser. I went to a local service center and asked if there was anyone in the community who we could help out financially. They suggested a 50-year old woman who after being laid off two months ago was diagnosed with ovarian cancer. She had already been through surgery and they were able to completely resect the tumor, but she still had to go through 10 rounds of chemotherapy and on her husband's salary of 1000 RMB a month there was no way they were going to be able to afford it. So at 11:11 am we had 11 single guys from the Flagship Program perform Romeo and Juliet from start to finish. We even had a wig for our Juliet which was apparently pretty convincing (we had some Chinese guy come up to us afterwards and say "hey, what happened to the leading lady I was hoping to talk to her"). We probably had about 4000 people stop and watch us. But most importantly, we were able to raise over 5500 RMB to help out someone in need. Here is the link to the clip that was on the evening news: http://youtu.be/kA7xKIsMjZ8?t=1m49s