Yom Kippur~

Today marked my first Yom Kippur overseas and, although there is no shul that I would want to attend, I did make sure to atone in my own way. I attempted to fast...which I did until about 2pm...thats a long time for a jewish girl that gets MAD cranky without food. I did, however, make sure to reflect on my sins and ask for forgiveness from those who are close to me. Once I got that out of the way, I felt I was in the clear to go about doing fun stuff for the rest of my day. Not so. I finished my atoning at about 2pm and then decided to have a little fruit (no major food-just the bare min.) anyway, I had a grapefruit type things is probably the WORST idea ever. My stomach hurt so bad that I had some crackers (which did nothing) and then had to crawl back into bed for a few more hours. I did not make it out of the house until 5.30 when I had plans to break fast with another Jewish girlfriend of mine. I wanted to go a little early so that I could buy a few more essentials (i.e. coffee maker). On the bus, I sat next to some random Chinese guy that decided he was interested in me. He got off at my stop and followed me to Walmart!! He followed me into the store-luckily, I'm quite keen, so I run inside, around a bunch of isles, down the escalator and out the door...and into a mall across the street. Thank G-d I blend...more or less. So much for my strategic plan to have a normal afternoon on Yom Kippur-filled with shopping and eating. Instead I get a stomach ache and then get stalked.
Trust me, I have learned my lesson.

However, once sunset hit, I had a fairly uneventful evening. Me and my friend Jen went to rotating sushi (Jeff is going to love it) . Basically the sushi is on these little colored plates that go around on a conveyer belt and you pull off the ones you want. So fun. About 30 plates and a bottle of sake later, we go back to walmart (i realized I still had no flatware and discovered my deep craving for dark chocolate...Jen needed some stuff for her cat). On our way home, we decide to get foot massages...which the place totally turned out to be cover for a brothel!! hottie chinese girls in low cut, sexy garb were sauntering into the backroom...and later being followed by Cantonese business men...very interesting...