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My right hand skills are just too good, its time I move on to find new adventures and challenges. And what better pursuit than one getting me closer to my life time goal to become fully ambixaterous. So I’m going to try working these pinching sets of sticks with my left hand to move a little closer to that goal. My suspicion is I will in most cases subconsciously default to using my right hand whenever I sit down for any meal and in general do a poor job of pursuing this self-imposed challenge. For the group dinners it’s not an option as if you aren’t quick with the chopsticking you’re out of luck and just have the scraps to pick through. As it’s been going now as soon as a dish is set down at dinner there are five plus pairs of chopsticks snapping at everything they can get a hold of. For those across the table from where it’s initially served if they aren’t reaching all the way across they have to wait patiently for the next dish to come and distract the primary feeders so that they can spin around the lazy susan and bring what’s left of
the previous plate within reach. It’s pretty much every man and woman for himself out there. Its borderline barbaric behavior only toned down because we have to use chopsticks to move things from the serving dishes to our plates or bowls. I know I usually drop something at least once, really calling into question my over confidence with my right hand chopsticking, as a result of my over zealousness to get that initial or final piece off the serving plate.
I do my best to try working my left hand skills at breakfast where things are generally a lot calmer as people arrive in stages. I do alright, it just takes me a little longer to eat. The worst was with the fried noodles one morning. I had just one tiny piece left and after trying to get it for a couple minutes I was ready to give up. But our professor and another student encouraged me to keep at and after another several minutes and one shattering moment were I almost had it I final was able to get it and eat it. In the end I probably worked harder to get it than then energy it provided but I was not defeated and that’s what I’ll say counts.
In the afternoon we did our first company tour during our trip. We visited a dental equipment manufacturing facility and it was about as exciting as going to an actual dentist. First we went into their showroom where they discussed a little bit about their history and they showed up their latest equipment models. Absolutely riveting stuff for absolutely no one in our group. After that we were walked around the facility were we saw only one space were equipment was being made. Conditions appeared nice for the labor force on duty. Their tasks looked pretty monotonous, a lot of soldering wires or placing of electronic components in place for the next guy. We also saw they’re testing facility. They didn’t have much going on but what looked like a fatigue test for some hosing. Some of the other machinery was identified for drop testing of the equipment package but we didn’t get to see any of that. After all that and seeing a comparison of the quality of their mouth piece scrapers to competitors we were brought to their library were we waited for our bus to return and take us back to CLI. Being nice my least favorite group outing. In the end it may have been better for them as they got a million pictures of predominately white students touring their facility.
Dinner at the Chinese burrito place spun the night around to a better note but opposed to ordering individually we did family style so the chopsticks were flying as all the guys were going all in trying to get a piece from each order that came out. A few of us were even standing at the table to give our chopstick reach a competing advantage.It was madness, but to survive the fray decency was tossed aside.
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