Dinner and disco

Friday night I went out for a meal with the Junior 3 teachers (all subjects)and principals and vice principals from the school. I'm not really sure why :-) but I think it was a prep up the teachers to work extra hard dinner ! Junior 3's have very important exams coming up. It was good, most of the dishes were fairly spicy so I must be kind of getting used to it. For the first time, out to the table came a nice big plate of chicken feet...I would have tried them but I can't really reason what there actually is on them to eat ??? I've not mentioned it before but Chinese meals involve a lot of toasts, not just a couple at the start of the meal but many all through the meal...and...you have to stand up for each one. So again if anyone dares mention that I'm losing weight, I keep telling you the lifestyle here is full of exercise, even eating a meal gives you an aerobic workout (lol)and while I'm on that subject, have I mentioned 103(from memory)stairs up to my apartment...I do this up and and down at least three times a day and often much more, then at the school there is many floors and I am up and down again a few times a day. Then there is the fact that I don't drive in China(if you were here, you would see why :-)so I walk many places(the amount of stairs everywhere in this place is amazing) and teaching classes each day is virtually like having to put on a performance, plus socially, my friends keep me very busy...Very active lifestyle!
Back to last night...
After dinner I was given a choice. All the women teachers decided to go for a foot massage :-)???? and a group of the men teachers were going to the nightclub.
I opted for the nightclub. I was actually suprised, it was pretty cranking. Typical nightclub in the sense of smokey, flashing lights and loud music but different in that it had many private areas with couches and a table (these are pre booked for a fee and they bring you out heaps of stuff...drinks, fruit, popcorn, sweets etc) There is also much entertainment, a sax player and a singer make cameo performances and two very talented barmen doing the cocktail type bar tending complete with juggling bottles that were flaming, swallowing fire and much much more...very entertaining indeed.