Big Weekend.

Hey all,

I'm drinking too much beer in China.

Sorry for the late post again. The hassel of plugging the camera in and trying to remember what has happened over the last week sometimes outweighs the benefits of having a fresh blog post...but once I do get around to it, it is oh so rewarding.

Yeh so, we had a really big weekend this weekend past. We went out to this bar called lang gui fang which is a notorious foreigner spot and we smashed it. We went with a huge bunch of foreign students from Caitlin's uni and didnt get home till 6 am (after having a noodles at an all night taiwanese place). Had a really good time but man, i felt it the next day. Lucky I had the rugby league to soothe my pain....(only to be left emotionally battered and bruised in what was to be the last 10 seconds of the Broncos season......people don't forgets Simms, people dont forget.)

Aaaaanyway, for some reason I was drinking tequila with some american guy and beering it up on the dance floor. It was a messy night. Caitlin had fun too, i think.

I met this dude who is going to give me like 20 lesson plans. I had a guitar jam with him earlier in the night and he wants me to come and and play with his acoustic guitar trio who all sing and apparantly do some harmonies too so that should be fun. He then tried to convince me to come to some mountain and do martial arts every week. I wasn't so sure about that though.

We didnt take too many pictures and the videos Caitlin took of me trying to speak drunken Chinese are just plain wrong. I would have put them up except:

1) I swear at the end of the good one and;

2) what if i want to go for prime minister one day? These videos would ruin me.

OK so ill just put up some photos of some of our friends, the place where we spent the mid autumn festival and a picture of Caitlin....

The restaurant...

My friend Arne....

The restaurant again.... You could ride in the pedal powered boats like at natureworld (who will be the first to say "nature world isn't open any more!" I wonder....)

Me and some of the other foriegn students...

Caitlin telling a terrible terrible joke....

Ok, that is all for now. I think Caitlin wants to blog about her trip to Qufu, the home of Confucious, later on....mmm

See ya!

Pauly

OH! and p.s, I have like 10 days off next week because it is the national day holiday (Yeh that's right, in China, they get 5 days off for their version of Australia day, but considering the weekends and the fact i dont work on mondays, it adds up to 10 for me, (a s m t w h f a s m).

So kt and I are gonna try and get to Beijing for a couple o days and see what all the fuss is about.

Also, and this is what im super super excited about, we've decided that at the end of our semesters and before we come home (around jan 20thish) we are gonna go to Japan for two weeks or so before we go to Australia via Hong Kong. Nice. Im very much looking forward to this as Japan is the home of:

1 - average internet speeds of around 70 - 100mbs per second

2 - Sony (Tv's, playstation, and all sorts of other rad electronics)

3 - Japanimation and naruto (nice ill buy some cosplay stuff maybe lol, maybe a manga or two for funs sake)

4 - rad food

5 - rad gaming and arcade scene

6 -trendy clothes and trendy people

7 and a bunch of other cool stuff.

So Im v excited about this decision. We'll have to fly over korea to get there but thatll be ok....wont it?? lol

Ok catchyaz later

Pauly