Thursday 29 November 2007

Well, we had Qiao’s 22^nd birthday today. After class we headed out for lunch at a Korean restaurant just around the corner from our dorms. It was pretty good! Pretty yummy! After that Megan, Quentin and attempted to go shopping for clothes and stuff but the style here are kinda weird in a nice way, but being picky, I didn’t buy anything. I wanted to make sure that I would wear it back in Australia. None of us bought anything actually. Megan got her diamontes for her camera (which look pretty cool by the way) and then we decided to get “sticky pictures” (Quentin’s terminology). They were really cool I looooooooooooooooove them… the only thing is that I think we coulda have gotten it for cheaper, but we were all foreigners hahaha.

Anywho after that we had to get Qiao’s present which was a Lazer from the night market. The lazer was pretty awesome… but yea…by this time we were already late for Qiao’s dinner at the “Caribbean.” We raced back home, got ready and made our way to the restaurant. The food was similar but not as good as the Brazilian restaurant (where we ate before and we tried all the crazy stuff like bullfrog).

After that we went back to the dorms for the dorm party. It was held in Jemes’ (James) room… and omg… it went off!!! It was soo good! So packed!! It was pretty cool, I have posted some pics of it on my flickr page. There is this tradition amongst the friends when it comes to birthdays… with the birthday cake… well… no one so far has eaten it… in fact.. it has gone in their face! Megan and I were like… “oommmg… ur not serious…” and well Qiao’s birthday did not break the tradition! Cake was everywhere! On the floor and like get this, it was not just on Qiao… it ended up being one massive cake fight. I was initially ok… but by the end of it… not too cool. It was in my hair, on the dress on my country road cardigan… Augh! But it was all good fun.

I tired a cool drink which we should try back in Australia (Looks at Will… = D ) Here they get Contrieau drink it straight, and hold it in your mouth while someone lights it up with a lighter… it is hellll niiiiceee!! It tastes like orange! Was soo good!

After that, we all headed to S.O.S. (and yes.. I went with the cake all over me, I did wash most of it off my face and stuff, but still had it in my hair). S.O.S was sooo good! It was a Thursday night again, meaning 60 kuai (RMB) for open bar… awesomness!

The night ended pretty much at maccas… it was pretty early as we had the Xitang excursion the next day.

Friday 30 November 2007

8am start. Augh… eyes did not want to open.

We got ready and went outside our dorms to wait for the buses. This was a huge excursion. Xitang is a beautiful, traditional water village. It was featured in the Mission Impossible III movie… you know, the part where Tom Cruise’s character was trying to find his fiancé and it ended up being in this China town… yea it was Xitang.

I must admit I was pretty buggered but looking back on the photos, it was such a nice place to go, very interesting.

We then went bowling… which I sucked at. Gabriel is pretty good… I suck… suck suck suck suck balls.

Saturday 1 December 2007

Bright ant early… had to meet in the lobby at 6.30am. Augh! But yea… maaaan it was cold this morning!

The bus ride was pretty alright, a lot of us just slept and yea… the drive was about 3 hours there. We had a pit stop at this restaurant which we had to have lunch at. The food… well it was… something that you need to have a double take… it was definitely a meal that could cause “liquid shit” as Quentin would say. Oh yea… mate, the toilets were GROSSSS!!! The ultimate ghetto toilets.

After that we made our way to the starting point of the mountain. Here there was a debate as to whether we would climb the mountain or take a cable car up. The adventurous, the brave who dared to climb were Jemes, Quentin, Willy, Qiao, Megan and I. HAHAHAHA… it was possibly the better choice as the scenery was breathtaking… but dooude… that was one bitch of a mountain to climb! Yes… there was a lot of swearing. Hahaha there was a lot of stripping… (from our 3 layers and jackets to shorts and shirts). I really cant believe how Qiao and Willy could still climb the mountain and have cigarette breaks?!?!?!!

It was a mission but definitely worth it. It took about 3 hours to climb. Very tiring… once at the top… augh… cant say it enough… it was beautiful. The accommodation.. lets not go there… it was the ghetto…like no joke. Hostel style, place cold as hell, smelling like pee… that’s enough… lets just say I didn’t get a lot of sleep that night.

Sunday 2 December 2007

4.30 am we woke up to make another 3km trek to see the sunrise… was beautiful, but yea…not as beautiful as the sunset we experienced. We saw wild monkeys…yea… they were pretty scary… got some awesome footage of it… hahahaha.. But yea… pretty much we made our way back to the bus after seeing the sunrise.

Monday 3 December 2007

Umm… yea getting kinda lazy now… we started learning a Chinese song in class called Yue liang dai biao wo de xin. It is apparently an old Chinese love song. Very pretty sounding though. = )

I ended up playing basketball in the late afternoon too which was pretty fun. After that we ended up going to the gym to play badminton.. no success no courts, so we then played table tennis which was pretty cool. Oh yea… we did the laundry too… siiick.

Jemes, Quentin, Megan and I started playing cards later on…we played snap and there was a bet for the loser to wear Qiao’s style of clothing this Wednesday. Now Qiao style is like… hommie G to the max. really baggy pants and jackets and yea… smokes etc… yea who lost…ull find out in the next entry when I get the pics up = )

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