June 29th

June 29th, 2012

MY IMPRESSION OF SHANGHAI (Mosquitoes)

      Summer in Shanghai is actually great. It’s warm ---- technically hot ---- but great. However, what really sucks about Shanghai ---- I mean really sucks, is that you get approximately five mosquito-bites every day. Can you even imagine how much they would bother you!? Five itchy, awful, turgid, bumpy mosquito-bites every day! They are crazily annoying.

      On the first day, I got three mosquito-bites. It was okay. I found them itchy but also a little proud of getting them. On the second day, I got only one. I was pretty happy with it, because it didn’t drive me crazy when I am playing piano or reading a book ---- it didn’t distract me or annoy me. On the third day: today, I got two bites in the morning. I started scratching them a lot, because it’s such a relief to release the terrible itch. However, I started getting pissed of seeing red huge spots on my calf. They are ugly, and of course they annoyed me. I knew I shouldn’t scratch the mosquito-bites because they would getter bigger and redder. And uglier. Thus I finally stopped by applying a bunch of medicine time by time. Well, this afternoon, while I was playing and enjoying piano, I got three mosquito-bites. I didn’t care. I endured the itch and went outside with my family. When I was outside, I got two more mosquito-bites. Yeah, I know. It’s crazy. Is it my bad luck day? Because they’re really annoying. I was so mad and I wasn’t able to kill any of them. So I came inside again to read. Just wished the mosquitoes would leave me alone, because they drove me insane with the bumpiness and itch. Both made me uncomfortable. I was reading on the couch. I half laid, half sat. It was peaceful but it didn’t last long. I guess I was too focused that I didn’t realize that I got three more mosquito-bites on my forearm. Suddenly, I saw a big black and white mosquito went right in front of my face. It was probably full of blood. My blood. I tried to swing my hand together to hit it to death but it just suddenly disappeared. I was angry but I had nothing to express my anger on. I couldn’t control myself from yelling at the ‘invisible’ insect. After I just sprayed myself with half a bottle of bug spray and applied more medicine that went over the mosquito-bites layers and layers.

      Well, that afternoon was uneasy and uncomfortable. But I had no other choices than endure. The good thing is that I got more experiences. I learned that I have to spray myself some bug spray and apply medicine after getting bitten by mosquitoes. J