Hey Everybody,
I know there are some of you who out there for a dying for another tasty morsel of delicious noob blogging so I've decided to feed your hunger for uninspired non-literary ramblings about our time in China. Down boy/girl!
Ok so I'll tell you what we did last Saturday night...
Caitlin went to a party with a bunch of her foreign friends and I went to KTV with another teacher from my school and some of our students. Much fun was had by all. The girls had to be back at the school by 10:30 as this is their curfew!!! (Yes even on the weekend! These are 20 - 21 year year olds by the way...imagine trying to enforce rule that in Australia...well I guess they did at Grace College...but they are religious so...)
So yeh, KTV is like karaoke where you pay for a room for a couple of hours and they have a P.A system hooked up to a computer jukebox and a projector and you sing karaoke with your friends. It's weird because I thought the whole point of karaoke was to get drunk and sing in front of people you don't know, but these kids were stone sober and taking it very seriously haha. Although Lemon (my student) came with us and he was drinking. After the girls caught a cab home (at 10:00!) we went out to two bars that were pretty dead and then ended up back at the place Caitlin and I went to a couple of weeks ago (Lan Kwai Fong). Once again, Tequila was had by all and I met Caitlin there too. We had some chats with everyone and got home around 3:30am ish...
My mate Lemon belting out some random Chinese song...
Me belting out some super random English song
Maggie and Renee
Steve and I....as you can see from all the bottles, I have become slightly rosy cheeked...
The sign says it all...although it should read "Cheap Tequila will mess you up big time"
Hello Kitty Lemon
Caity and Cainty - Cainty is famous for her words "Let's Drunk!"...niceThe next morning is what was rad - WE COOKED A FRY UP! Nice, it is so good to eat a sweet awesome fry up...twas hard to find the ham but we got some and treated ourselves to a belly full of greasy western breakfast. I like eggs now too by the way.
Mmmmm...so bad but sooooo good.So that's about all that's happened this week/last week. I have been working hard and enjoying it and I have also been playing pool with a couple of my students and with Steve at lunch times. Oh and I've also learnt a couple new dishes that I can order so I don't have to keep getting tung su litchi or hong shou tiairzi (sweet and sour pork or braised eggplant). Nice.
Caitlin has been studying like crazy...I'm glad I'm not studying anymore. I'm loving my 4 day work weeks (during which I am encouraged to drink beer and play pool). I haven't actually been drinking as much beer as this blog may lead you to believe by the way, its just that whenever I blog I talk about the times when beer has been drunk because that's when I'm having the most fun/relaxing usually. Don't worry I'm not turning into an alcoholic.......or am I???? Nope, just having a very good holiday!
Ok so here are some candid photos I took of Caitlin studying...because she is literally studying ALL THE TIME!!!! Which is good for her but boring for me lol!
See Caitlin's rad little laptop/study table...it's so awesome! Great for those gen y kids out there who read the news news through a wifi internet connection before they go to bed etc...I'm gonna get one too and I'll get a laptop so Caity and I can do Gen Y reading in bed before we go to sleep....novels are for suckers!
And here are some more photos of my school!
The View - It is so much clearer, crisper and fresher out at my school than it is in Jinan. I can see blue sky everyday which is a real treat!
This is awesometown - They have outdoor ping pong tables at the school. they are always packed at lunchtime. You have to play the breeze though...it requires a new element of skill that I am trying to master. Once you get it though, the swing is amazing!
Steve and a student (Emma) have a friendly game...but most of the girls are as good as the boys so it's a bit harder than what you might expect.
Ok, that will be all for now, if you have any questions post them in the comments and I'll try to answer them....next week hahahaha!
Pauly
4 comments:
Haha, yeah sucks about the karaoke hay!
Apparently we're the only country weird enough to have *public* karaoke!
Same story in japan and hong kong. I coudn't find a public karaoke bar anywhere, just the little private room deal...
I've been keeping up with your blog since you left :P
I'm really inspired by you guys, and i'm planning on doing something similar myself in the near future!
Good to see you're both having a great time :P
Hey Manu! Wow i didn't realise you were keeping up with the blog, thats hella cool! Do drop us the address when u do a travel blog or whatever on ur travels. You (and tgs and sony and naruto) have inspired me to hit up Japan before we go back to Aus (via hong kong) so im really excited about that. Im really missing the ps3 but im hoping all the holiday titles are nice and discounted by the time i get home and i hope play tv is out by then aswell (as well as home!!! hurry up sony!). Hows work and life and stuff man?
as previously discussed, breakfast is awesome. Pauly it is good to see you are now seeing the benefits of eggs. Although to make this a truly michael phelps breakfast it would need to be preceded by a bowl of cereal and probably doubled in size with some sweet little chipolatas for some extra protein. ohkay.
hmmmm eggs. I'm sick of croissants already.
They have a bar like that in brissy. We did it for our xmas party at work one year. I agree, you need total strangers booing you off the stage for karaoke to work.
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