Day Nine

Note: I am using day 10's free day instead of day 9's article response

Today I did fairly well.

I've started realizing that the biggest struggle with this project has been eating and sometimes writing--but I haven't been writing too much (thank God for technology!). I realize that if I were to be in some other circumstance (if my right arm was broken, for instance), then I would be using my left hand for everything, even tests and putting on makeup so it would be super hard.

I think someday this week I'm going to try using my left hand primarily in applying my makeup--just to see what it would look like, if I can actually do it, how long it would take, etc. But we'll see if there's a day when I'm brave enough to do that... haha.

I've also noticed that in my pursuit to be left handed, that as I'm constantly trying to remember to use my left hand for things, that I realize that we use both of our hands to complete a numerous amount of tasks. Like, typing for instance. Or cleaning my room. There's multiple times a day where I go, "oh I should be using my left hand for this" and then realize, I use both my hands equally in this task. So that's been interesting to me. I never actually realized how often I use my hands.

Anyways, I went to lunch at a Chinese restaurant with a few friends after church. I ordered the sweet and sour chicken, which was actually quite hard to cut and eat. There were a few pieces of chicken that I couldn't cut with my fork (no knifes were given to us, unfortunately). I gave up trying on a few pieces. My friends kind of laughed at me, though I think they were really surprised at how hard it was for me to do it.

Dinner I ate with a few other girls in the dining hall. I got my usual salad with cucumbers and such on top, and forgot to get my fork. So I proceeded to cut the cucumbers with my fork, and it actually worked this time! It was a bit of a struggle, but it wasn't as hard as usual. YES. Score for the day! I was super excited.

My roommate looked at me funny and was like "I'm going to try this and see how hard it really is", and then proceeded to try to take a few bites with her left hand. And she then told me that it was really hard and that she had no muscles in her left hand.

Exactly.

That's what they've all been laughing at for the last couple of days, but at least now she understands haha.

Also, another thing I've noticed... food is much less enjoyable when you have to work to eat it. Like I'm constantly working on cutting food or making sure it doesn't fall off my fork, that I almost don't enjoy the food anymore. So, yeah. I thought that was kind of interesting.

Stay tuned for tomorrow!