Ninja turtle cocktails are
always a good idea.....
It’s Sunday and I am
officially dead after a crazy weekend. The week itself was pretty quiet and I
spent my free time getting all my lesson plans sorted for the rest of the
semester. I also had to write the exam for my students, which feels very
strange seeing as it’s only been a couple of years since I was taking exams at
uni!
My tutoring on Thursday
evening was really good fun. We were learning colours, but one child responded
with ‘sit down’ for every single colour....am I really that bossy? I have also
arranged with the parents to have a Christmas party for them and I am so
excited! I haven’t played games like pass the parcel and musical chairs in
years but I think my years of birthday party attendances at school will put me
in good stead. These children aren’t ever going to want to go to a Chinese
birthday party ever again.
Friday evening was spent volunteering
at Mr Mai’s and I had some brilliant conversations with some guys about cockney
rhyming slang. So when I left, I walked down the apples and pears (stairs!). At
9pm when I finished, I decided it would be an excellent
idea to go and try out the bar right next door, which had a see through top
floor! It was a very eventful evening. I was supposed to pre drink here and
then go to see my friend DJ. Oh no, with a bar woman not bothering to measure
the units and giving me a whisky tumbler full of tequila for a £1, I ended up
going home very early. I did have some amazing drinks though, such as a ninja turtle!
The night ended with me ordering some barbeque food in Chinese - what an
expert.
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| Ninka turtle cocktail! |
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| See through floor! |
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| Chinese takeaway |
On Saturday, I felt okay and
went food shopping. In the afternoon, after a cheeky waffle and pink lemonade, I
went to see Interstellar at the cinema which was incredible. Chinese cinemas
have HUGE screens and the films are in English, which surprised me. However,
during the film, the woman next to me had pretty much bought a whole picnic
with her and she looked very pleased with herself when a WHOLE ROAST CHICKEN
appeared. I will never understand why she spent the next three hours trying to
carve the chicken with chopsticks.
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| Pink lemonade! |
As I’d made Irish soda bread
that morning, I took some over to Dean and it ended up with me agreeing to go
back out again in the evening. We went down to Optics Valley and to an Irish bar called Captain Jacks. You can take your own food
into bars in China so there was me and Olivi sat eating chicken and bacon wraps at midnight! We left the bar to check out a Chinese club called
MOMO’s and were greeted by a red carpet. So far, so good. However, I think we
were in the club for about thirty seconds because it was a Chinese woman
wailing and overpriced drinks.
Onto plan B, five of us
squeezed into a taxi and headed to Prison. This is where this Chinese boy was
determined to keep buying me drinks, even though I didn’t want to drink. Cue
Mel and I hiding behind a post as she had to keep drinking the sambuca he
bought me. Nightmare! We all ended up going back to Dean’s for an after-party.
I was the life and soul of the party and fell asleep as soon as I sat down.
Brilliant.
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| Rocking the red carpet into MOMO |
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| How many foreigners can we get into one taxi? |
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| Cannot handle two nights in a row - I do look tanned though! |
Night all
xxx
