No I don't know anyone names Brgan, though it does sound like a fun name, that's just how Bryan's name came out on the cake Dave got for him. Dave called me up yesterday afternoon to ask if I knew that it was Bryan's birthday. Since I don't use facebook essentially ever here, it's really annoying to go in with only about a 1 in 10 chance of it actually working, I don't get updates on whose birthday is coming up. But Dave got the message that morning and quickly found out that one section of the cafeteria sells cakes. We all gathered in Clark's apartment at around 9 and when we finally got Bryan in sang a rousing round of Happy Birthday. Bryan was actually pretty surprised by all this. As we were just about to cut the cake Steve added, "Not to be too negative, but milk crises?" We all broke out laughing. It's hard to tell what exactly to do about all the tainted milk. It won't actually kill an adult, but it could be unpleasant. Still it's been a while and we were eating cake not just downing a gallon of milk so we all had some. The Chinese can never seem to give one answer when you ask them how old they are. I remember Teddy saying something like, "30 or 31 or 32." I can see how you might have two possible answers but three is impressive. They know the way we count in America so they give us our answer, the lowest. In China though you start out as one when you are born so that adds one year, also if you were born right before the Spring Festival, Chinese New Years, they add another one at your first Spring Festival. The long and the short of it is I've just stopped asking how old people are.
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