well. i turned 24 twice this week, once in china and once in the u.s. and i enjoyed both of them. our boss at the school and the rest of the staff took us out to.....try and guess..... CHINESE FOOD for my birthday! (we are tiring of the food already, even though it is really good.) you try eating Chinese food everyday for a week. or even a few days. anyway. the celebration was good, had some cake, some beer, and some super strong Chinese "wine". 52 proof. still feeling it. then we went downtown to a bar, kind of like downtown brew for you SLO folk. had a good time there and then moved on to CLub Love. craziness. have you ever seen a dance club in the movies that's all crazy with lights and smoke and loud music and people dancing everywhere.. we went there. overall, quite an interesting birthday party for me. considering my last birthday was spent in Tuolumne, having dinner with my family. they like R&B music here, and some techno. i was hoping for some beatles. it was a little surreal hearing a remix of "california dreaming" at the club. saw some more white folks though! a couple crazy russian boxers, some canadians, and our friend maria snow f
rom australia. meeting a lot of great people. everyone is very friendly and helpful, much less staring at the clubs.start teaching tuesday. just got our schedules. 1 and 1/2 hours of teaching a day. rough workload so far:) we'll see. ohhh, and in china things are always last minute and a bit disorganized. so we found out things a few minutes or so before we have to do them. such as, "by the way, be ready to teach a quick lesson in front of the guy in charge of hiring you and the rest of the staff in an hour, mmk." seriously. "ohhh, and get ready to sing a song....in Chinese.....at the school's 50th anniversary celebration.......in front of 20,000 students...." yep. so that's all i've got for now. stay tuned.
phrase of the day; duo shao qian- how much?
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so the white people count is up to... 12 or so. nice. nice. I had a tri-tip sandwich, from good old firestone, in honor of your birthday.
glad to see you had a great birthday. sounds a lot different than our birthday celebrations back in SLO. if i remember right we spent my 21st leading a Bible study in our apartment. "hmm, some thing's changed" (insert Regan impression here) well i sent you an email too don't know if you check this more or that more. peace.
tri-tip. i would kill six, no make that 7 endangered pandas for one of those right now. seriously.
Happy 24th Burpday! (chinese beer) So glad to know you two are safe and are enjoying your "Grand Day Out". Will be praying for your first day (okay 1.5 hours) of teaching! Love to you, Aunt Carrie, et all.
Isn't it just called "food" now that you're in China? :) I saw Amanda's pic of the McD feast. I remember how good a greasy ham & cheese from the hotel bar tasted after about 9 days of Chinese food.
Anyway, happy birthday, Dan. Glad you guys finding your bearings and enjoying your adventure so far. Good luck this week.
Jen (& Joe)
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