DRUNKEN BLOG INTERLUDE

Ok, so here's the deal. Laura and I went out tonight....and drank just a bit, and by just a bit i mean, enough to post a drunken blog. Hopefully I will be back to normal blogging tomorrow, but for now, enjoy our recount of the evening.

Tonight we went to dinner at the in-laws of a teacher in my office. We ate the best-est meal we've had yet in China. We also learned how to stuff dumplings. We suck at stuffing dumplings, but they were nice to us anyways, because "dumplings are dumplings" and that is a direct quote from a chinese person. After dinner we went to watch people dance in the square, and then went home with many many dumplings in tow.

Before going to dinner a student came to our apartment and told us he was having a party for us tonight, but we had other plans, and told him maybe after dinner. oh well. when we came home from dinner, no one was around and our apartment was locked so we thought maybe the party was delayed. We got a text from our friend Liu Jie, asking us to come to his restaurant for a beeer or two. On the way there we were assaulted by some students. They know where we live now, so they stalk us. Apparently this is ok by chinese cultural standards. We still don't buy it. We told the students we were going to see a friend and would see them another time.

One student in particular followed us there and came in to hang out. We agreed to let him have less than half a cup of beer, to humor him. but we did not want to drink with him because, even though there is no drinking age in china, we do not feel right drinking with students. because, alas, we are not chinese. but as we were drinking and talking, the student that followed us, David James, told us a lovely story. Apparently for the party that was supposed to happen that night, he bought some beer. We asked him how he was able to buy it and this is (pretty much word for word) what he said:

"This night i went to the shop. The shopkeeper said 'what do you want to buy?' 'Sir, i want to buy some beer.'(said David James) But the shopkeeper said 'you are only a children, you can not buy beer.' And then I said 'can you give me a chance?' and the shopkeeper laughed and give me some beer." David James (16 years old)

So, we let the kid hang out for a while, but it was weird because he is my student, so eventually we told him to go home. he wasn't pumped but he did because i went into teacher mode and convinced him to go. We stayed and hung out with Liu Jie, and he tried to teach us Chinese. he kept saying how easy it is, but we tried to learn ONE word (vegetables) and said it like 2,000,000 and it was always wrong. He would say it "right" and we would try to repeat but it was wrong. ALWAYS wrong. So much for chinese being "easy". Anyways, we decided to call it a night and now we are home, blogging and having some late night beers, and most likely hitting up some of the jiaozi we made tonight.

I hope this is somewhat entertaining. I'll be back to the regular routine tomorrow night, filling in the gaps from the previous week!!! Thanks for reading! :)