Busy times

A condensed version of the last few days would be something like this...
FRIDAY : "Happy Birthday Nettie", Lunch at the steak house in CBD and window shopping for the afternoon.




SATURDAY: Delicious Lunch and Dinner at Netties parents house, bank business and bits and pieces shopping in between.
SUNDAY : Lunch with Friends of friends, sleep in the arvo,learned some Chinese, stuffed around at Netties house before she cooked a delicious dinner.


MONDAY : "Yichang Foreign Teachers New Year/Spring Festival Get together Party"
only 13 government employed primary through to senior foreign teachers here in Yichang....4 or 5 of which come from a school in Yidu (a district or county of Yichang, about an hours drive away). So not really many of us considering the total population of Yichang is over 4 million (keep in mind that includes all districts etc, not just the city).




We all had to do some kind of performance, partake in some games and eat a meal with the government officials. Not exactly what any of us westerners would call a party :-)but I guess the key word is COMPROMISE. I like to believe they meant well, but I've never been one for taking part in such activities. It reminds me of when I used to bend over and pretend to be doing up my shoelaces whenever they were looking for people to come on stage at shows and performances in shopping centres or school etc, but from this show, there was no escape!!!but hey, I got to meet other foreign teachers and was given a great gift of a whizz bang ping pong paddle.