Sunday, February 26, 2006

YARRRR It Be China

Well I've done heaps in the last two days, but I'm a lazy person so I'll skip through it quickly.

Yesterday, it being the weekend so we have no lessons, we rode into town and left our bikes at the bottom of the mountian on the other side of town. We them climbed up, past some old pagodas and a big communist statue thingo. It was a huge climb, and really really beautiful and fun. There were paths branching off everywhere, and we found a bamboo forest on the way down. At the top we found an excelent view of Eshan spread out below us. I'll post some pictures after I finish this.

After that we decided we needed a big lunch/dinner (it was about 4 - 5 pm). We fruitless search for a resterant when we unexpectedly ran into one of the English teachers from the school. She invited us to (ANOTHER!) wedding feast, followed by bowling, swimming in hot springs, karoke and a bar! We eagerly accepted. The meal was one of the nicest I've had in China, there were some really good dishes and everyone was really jovial. We stopped by the school and got swimming gear, then got on the specially aranged school bus. The place was in another town about 10 minutes away, which we had been planning on going to today. We bowled with some of the guys around our age for about half an hour then went for a swim in the hot springs. Later we got drunk with some of the teachers and politly declined many many times to sing.
Everyone in China drink drives!! It's terrible.
Anyway, we got the bus back (the bus driver was sober as far as i could tell) at about 1 am.

Today we got up late and then went into town to go shopping for some 'essentials'. We got BB guns, firecrackers, toys, tea, shampoo, peasent shoes, an explorers hat, a mao hat and a leather jacket (piers did, i couldn't find one that fit comfortably), and a nail clipper.

Now we are just lounging around in the apartment, shooting the guns and listening to music. Piers hasn't seen heaps of the movies I brought so I expect we'll watch something like a Kubrick film or something tonight.

Missing everyone, hope your all well and enjoying your modern food hygine practices and drinkable tap water!

Tom

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