OK OK, I missed making a post yesterday. There’s a good reason for it. Unfortunately I do not own the rights to any of the good reasons so I will have to settle on a not-so-good reason. Tonight isn’t much better so I must be brief.
Last night I attended a dinner for the foreign teachers hosted by the university. We met and had dinner with the president, assistant president and chairman of the school along with other distinguished guests at the LianXi hotel. It was a fantastic dinner and every dish was delicious! After the dinner a few of the foreign teachers felt it would be a good idea to finish the night at a local bar – Ali Ba Bar. There are a couple of things that westerners might find interesting about going to a bar here. Jiujiang does not have club soda. I found this out as I was ordering a Stoli and soda. I noticed four bottles of red wine each partially empty so I ordered a red wine. They do not serve red wine by the glass so we bought a bottle. I think I made a new speed record for blocking when I halted their attempt to pour the red wine over ice for me. In comparison, everything else that took place last night just made sense.
Today is the Chinese festival celebrating teachers. In the morning the president, chairman and many high ranking officials of the university held a ceremony in a university hall honoring teachers with awards in excellence. In the afternoon I met with another foreign teacher to go to city central for no particular reason.
The weather here has turned to rain and today was marked by heavy rains most of the day. I was told that this area has moved into the rainy season and more often than not it will rain from now until March of next year with snow in the winter.
Tomorrow I hope to be back into a better pattern and able to devote more time to the blog and its content. Also, I am working on captions for the images I have been taking and will post a new section of material very soon on the Picasa site.
Todays new words:
Please sit down = Qian zuo xia [cheeng zoi zja]
Eggplant = Qie zi [ che e zuh]
Rice = Mifan [me fan]
I am an American = Wo shi mei guo rem [Woah shi may guoa yen]
