Drunken Tuesday Night

A lot has happened sorry for not blogging, as it has been a while since I have had the chance to.

Lets recap. Monday Megan and I had our first day of school. It was pretty good. We learned about the 4 tones, and learned some initials and finals. Its pretty cool. The teacher makes us say the words as a class. Never had learned it that way when I learned Bahasa at uni.

Monday night we were having a quiet night, but then James and Quinton invited us out for Badminton. Megan stayed in, and I went out. Its been a LONG time since I have played. Maybe 3 years? It was good! But it made me realise how unfit I was. HAhaha! We walked to the sporting complex at about 9.15pm and since the centre was closing at 10pm and we only had 2 racquets, the lady at the desk lent us a 3rd one! (not usually done!) we played for a while, and then left when the centre closed. We then walked to Maccas… and yea had some food there. The weather. COLD. It was the coldest night yet.

Tuesday, well a lot happened on Tuesday. First we had class. Before class though I went to buy an apple for breakfast. I attempted to use some of the Chinese I had learned… and yea, was successful. I pretty much only said “I want that…” and pointed to the apple. I don’t know the spelling yet, that’s why I have not put it on here. To tell you the truth, the Chinese Ive learned has been a lot from hanging around with James’ crew (for now on, I’ll just refer to them as “the crew”) and Quinton has become a surrogate teacher. Quinton Laoshi!

We then met up with the crew and went for lunch. We tried Korean, Japanese and no such luck as it was packed. So… what did we resort to? Maccas… Here I tried to order my meal. “Shi si hao tao can.” But the girl did not understand me. *sigh* So Quinton ordered for me. GRRRRR!!!

After lunch we walked to the Bank for China (yin hang) where we got our much needed money to pay for accommodation and to pay for our tickets for our trip to Yellow Mountain this weekend. After that we decided to play some basketball. Which was pretty fun.

After basketball, we all quickly washed up, Megan and I paid for accommodation, and we headed for the travel agent to organise our trip this weekend. The deal is, we all are going to climb (walking) Yellow Mountain on Saturday and stay overnight, and then head back on the Sunday. It cost us 360 RMB, which ends up being about 60 Aussie each.

Once that was all sorted, we all decided to find dinner. We went to a French restaurant which was pretty alright… Ah western food! I ordered the Blue cheese pasta and then for dessert, the crème brulee (cant spell) . OOOH Lah laaah… I loved the crème brulee! I cracked the top of it… hehehe was soo cool! Just like Amelie! After dinner we decided to head back to uni and then meet up at the 2nd floor of our dorms to study.

We started studying… I did all my homework. But the thing is, while we were doing our homework there was already a group of people who were playing drinking games, and were well into it. Willy was among that group… they were so loud and were having so much fun… was very distracting. After finishing my homework I went to use the net on that floor because they were actually free. Quinton then tells me “Anna, we will be back, we are just going across the road to get some alcohol.”

O_o and that was the beginning of the end of our study session. LOL. It was all Megan, James and Quinton’s idea! We then played drinking games with terrible Chinese Brandy and green tea *CHIIINA!* It was so funny. The whole 2nd floor became one mega party. People started singing Tong Hua… and for some weird ass reason, beyond me, I knew parts of the chorus!... I cant remember it now, but on the video, I can be seen singing along… Oh yea… there were videos. LOL

One of the videos, shows how we ended up at the SOS club that night! Yea.. we ended up going to SOS as we were well and truly too loud for the dorms. SOS was alright. The rnb room was closed, so we were in the techno room. We scored 2 cds and Megan and I taxed one of the glowing iceblocks that were in Yuke’s drink. Yea… souvenir! We didn’t stay too long, and we ended back at…yes. You guessed it… Maccas. (The shame!) and it’s the same damn Maccas… 3 times in 2 days. SAD!

Anywho. That’s about up to date as to what has been happening. This morning in class was not too cool. Very tired! But the funny thing is that most the class had a big night last night as well. We saw some of them on our walk to SOS. Hahaha. What a random night out.

On Thursday, we have a big night as it is Qiao’s birthday, and then Friday we have our excursion to Xitang which is a Historic water town, and Saturday we have our trip to Yellow Mountain.

We need to buy a backpack for it… we haven’t been shopping believe it or not. Most of our money has been to going out and eating. I do want to buy more clothes, as well. I am getting tired of wearing the same things. And I have no going out clothes. At SOS I wore… no joke, trackpants and my pink hoodie with sneakers.

Well yea… until next time Zaijian!

Labels: China, Clubbing, Food, Friendship, Hangzhou, Party