Yuan Yuan Yang

Last night was so fun. We had some people over to our apartment for a movie night. Brandon made arrepas (Venezuelan food) and Cate made a fruit pizza, so good!! Cate and Brandon brought a friend of theirs from school her name was Yuan Yuan. She was a very fun loving person and had a contagious laugh and so much energy. I was watching Cate make the fruit pizza, she had a bowl of frosting she had just made, and then there was an open tub of butter that Brandon had been using for the arrepas. Yuan Yuan comes bouncing into the kitchen with big smile on her face and looks at the fruit pizza and in a quick, energy-filled movement dips here finger mistakenly into the tub of butter and brings it right up into her mouth while saying “yum is this the frosting?” Cate didn’t have time to respond as she saw the event unrolling because it happened so quickly. So, just as Yuan Yuan put her finger in her eager mouth, Cate warning trailed off “wait, that’s the…butter.” Yuan Yuan didn’t have to be told at that point because her finger had already made its way into her mouth and her previously enthusiastic face melted into one of minor disgust. Cate and I started to laugh, and as Yuan Yuan slowly pulled the once eager finger out of her mouth her face warmed back up to its enthusiastic glow and she started laughing.

Then we were sitting in the living room getting acquainted and Brandon asked Yuan Yuan how much she thought we spent to furnish our living room. She was sitting on the couch next to Emily, and went piece by piece to create the best estimate possible, and figured that we had spent about $2,000 on furniture. Brandon smiled and held up his hand in the form of a “0”. Without warning, Yuan Yuan turned to Emily and squealed like a pre-teen girl sitting at the front of a stage of a David Archuleta performance. It was like watching two girls scream over a guy they had a huge crush on. Except Emily wasn’t expecting the scream; she was startled and her face was one of immediate panic. So in one big blur, Yuan Yuan turns to Emily and starts squealing out of unexplainable joy, and Emily starts to squeal out of fear. From where I was standing I saw Emily’s face and the back of Yuan Yuan’s head as she turned to join with Emily in celebrating our living room. It all happened at once, which made for such a wonderful moment!! I laughed so hard.