Just got home from Quzhou which was heaps of fun! Friday we arrived early afternoon, and pretty much headed straight out to collect food for the dinner us girls were going to cook the boys. Their supermarket was amazing, we were able to buy undies that fit us and even SHORTS. We sat in on one of Johnnys lessons, which was pretty cool actually. They are really lucky their kids are between 15 and 18 so actually understand a lot and are able to talk intellectually with you! Johnny was teaching then to "hail" a taxi, and "scan read" a book! Pretty different to our school who struggle with the concept of "this is a circle!"
Case cooked a pretty delicious stirfry with mashed potato. We had Fay and Jane over for dinner, they are both chinese girls teaching english at their school and are totally amazing, Fay is 30 but looks and act s like a 17 year old! They are both really really cool! Then we went to one of the only bars in Quzhou, and met a couple of the other english teachers, Michael, a chinese guy and Peter a 30 year old American Guy. Plus a german couple. They are all really fun and CAN ACTUALLY SPEAK ENGLISH!!! Such a change from Yiwu. Saturday we played cricket with some of the kids, then went to get Dylans haircut. This time when they asked if I wanted my hairwashed I most certainly said yes! Which turned out to be a golden idea, I got a half hour massage and my hair and face cleaned, then unfortunately they styled my hair, which made me look about 56 and from a cheesy american sitcom, but meh it was sooo worth it just for free massage!
We went to an even more superior supermarket than the day before, to find things to cook chicken Parmesan. Which is apparently a staple food in australia, and they were horrified when I suggested we serve it with rice, according to them it is served in Bars with Chips or mash! In the supermarket we found mainland tasty cheese all the way from little New Zealand, you can only imagine how excited we were, seeing as we forgot to bring our quickly diminishing block from Yiwu! Jane and Fay thought that cheese was one of the weirdest tasting things ever. The chicken Parm was DELICIOUS, I am proud to call Casey my gap partner, she did our province proud! A fun night of Bai Jiu and card games, then a late night trip to the city wall, all good fun!
Last night just the four of us went to a bar and played some pool, pretty low key. This morning we headed home at about 10, it was a v. succesful trip. This weekend I think that either the boys are coming here for a bit of shopping and movies, or we might go to Hangzhou with the chinese guy, who is going there for business. The boys have a 6 day holiday this week so may be able to do both!
My laptops internet is not working which is scaring me a wee bit! Hoping that it will work again soon, will attach the photos that go with the stories soon,
Talk soon hopefully, Xx Kate
Case cooked a pretty delicious stirfry with mashed potato. We had Fay and Jane over for dinner, they are both chinese girls teaching english at their school and are totally amazing, Fay is 30 but looks and act s like a 17 year old! They are both really really cool! Then we went to one of the only bars in Quzhou, and met a couple of the other english teachers, Michael, a chinese guy and Peter a 30 year old American Guy. Plus a german couple. They are all really fun and CAN ACTUALLY SPEAK ENGLISH!!! Such a change from Yiwu. Saturday we played cricket with some of the kids, then went to get Dylans haircut. This time when they asked if I wanted my hairwashed I most certainly said yes! Which turned out to be a golden idea, I got a half hour massage and my hair and face cleaned, then unfortunately they styled my hair, which made me look about 56 and from a cheesy american sitcom, but meh it was sooo worth it just for free massage!
We went to an even more superior supermarket than the day before, to find things to cook chicken Parmesan. Which is apparently a staple food in australia, and they were horrified when I suggested we serve it with rice, according to them it is served in Bars with Chips or mash! In the supermarket we found mainland tasty cheese all the way from little New Zealand, you can only imagine how excited we were, seeing as we forgot to bring our quickly diminishing block from Yiwu! Jane and Fay thought that cheese was one of the weirdest tasting things ever. The chicken Parm was DELICIOUS, I am proud to call Casey my gap partner, she did our province proud! A fun night of Bai Jiu and card games, then a late night trip to the city wall, all good fun!
Last night just the four of us went to a bar and played some pool, pretty low key. This morning we headed home at about 10, it was a v. succesful trip. This weekend I think that either the boys are coming here for a bit of shopping and movies, or we might go to Hangzhou with the chinese guy, who is going there for business. The boys have a 6 day holiday this week so may be able to do both!
My laptops internet is not working which is scaring me a wee bit! Hoping that it will work again soon, will attach the photos that go with the stories soon,
Talk soon hopefully, Xx Kate
5 comments:
All good stuff Katie. I was thinking how good you and your hair was looking. I hope the computer gets working. Maybe it followed the fate of all your phones and had a toilet visit?
Love the blogs. Gxx
Nice blogging Slaam.
The bear pics and circus description look and sound quite disguisting, I can't really believe that it's just normal over there!
I love that Pups thought your hair looks amazing, I was staring at it for quite a while, trying to think of something to post.... Glad that it was an error!
All is ok here, quite busy, but I doubt I am as stressed or busy as Charl!!
Love you xxxx
PS Stir fry with mashed potato???? How does that work????
Glad you had a good weekend away with the boys. Casey seems to be a pretty good cook - that's lucky!
I told Grandma about the poor animals, she was not at all impressed, so I won't show her the pictures.
We love seeing the photos and hearing all the stories on the blog still.
How much actual teaching are you doing? Is it going OK? A few photos of school would be cool some time.
Bill is getting an award for the Australian Maths next week at the university - the "Prudence Award" for getting the most questions right in a row!
Have a good week at school, thinking of you every day, lots of love, Mum xxx
Hey guys, internet on the lappy STILL not working, ma pa any ideas on what to do about that?
So Phanty because of this you better give me your phone number address etc so I can give you a call instead of skype!
Yeah we are teaching this week its going well, last week was a bit of a sham because we had no classrooms to teach in! Hope all is going well, Xx Kate
Hey Kate,
Can you describe the problem with the internet a little bit more? I can ask the techny people that sit near me, one of them is pretty amazing and has lived in china, so he might have used the internet there before.
My address is:
131 Apu Crescent, Lyall Bay, Wellington 6022, New Zealand.
Phones are: +64 4 9765431 & +64 21 365259.
I'm down in chch this weekend so maybe talk to you then. Hang in there wamby xx
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