We had our first class today. It was nerve wreaking. China’s school system is different than ours. We started teaching at 8am and then at 11:30am is lunch. For lunch we have until 1:30pm then we teach our last class until 3pm. In total we have 6 classes but really it is 3 long classes split up. It scared us the moment they said we had 6 classes! It was really tiring teaching those classes because we always repeated ourselves but we don’t really remembered what we said to each class hahaha. After a long day in school we came back home to shower, rest and change for the school performance of “I’m not Li Bai”. This performance was put on by a Beijing theater company and we got free tickets. It was a really good performance and I really liked the actors. They were really entertaining and acted really well, especially the guy who acted really gay! He pulled it off so well!
TGIF! Today was a bit drizzly so wasn’t in the greatest of mood since we had to school. The worst thing was that the class we were supposed to attend didn’t even go to class. Nia and I were just sitting in class jamming out to BSB songs! Thank god someone called me and we had laptops to just watch random shows for a bit. I was taking the bus back to my apartment and of course the bus BREAKSDOWN---IN THE MIDDLE OF TRAFFIC! Just my luck, we had to wait in the sweaty heat for another bus that was stuck in traffic…China’s traffic is not to be messed with. Cars can create their own lanes if they feel like it so being a pedestrian is very dangerous here…. So much for jay walking…
June 5th:
Since it’s the weekend, we decided to go bar hopping and clubbing since the weekend has been long awaited. We went to “lao wai tan” which translate to “foreigner’s island” . There are many restaurants catered to foreigner’s taste. We decided to eat steak at a place called “Bullfighter” and it was kind of early for lunch. We were the only ones in the place until we almost finished then people started to roll through.
As we observed the place, I realized it kinda looked like Brooklyn for a bit. The cobble stone road with bridges covering the area and a spot near the waterfront to sit and take in the view, it was really nice. As we were about to finish our lunch, some random dudes decide to ask us to take our pictures. It was really random but TIC (This is China) so why not. They followed us for a bit and we kinda got annoyed after a while so we were like ‘uh, we want to go to a bar to have drinks so ..yeah…’ After we got them to understand we gave them our emails in hope of receiving the pictures they took that day even though we knew the chances of actually getting them are SLIM, we decided to try it anyway…WE NEVER GOT THE PICURES! (It is july now!)
After we had drinks at Shamrock bar, we decided to go clubbing. The club we went to was supposed to be a good one, from the outside it looked okay. It was all fancy and what not. Since it was still early we decided to bar hop a bit more and went to Wonderland. We ordered some B-52 shots…(It comes with fire!) There was a special that day so we stayed for a bit then moved onto another bar until we could dance.
As we made out way to the club, the music was loud so we got our hopes up…Once inside, it was just old people! By old people I mean like some were middle-aged and others were beyond their 20s. We had on our ‘WTF’ face. When we were seated we asked where the dance floor was, and the guy said “you’re looking at it!” …In the midst of the loud music I was like “WHAT! You got to be kidding me! That 4x8 looking piece of wood is your dance floor!” Okay, it wasn’t 4x8 but it’s not that big. It’s about the size of an average dining table.
Since it was our first time clubbing here in Ningbo, we decided to give it a chance. Ordered some beer and tried to get a feel of the music and club. It was an epic fail! They had some live performances which were okay, but the dancing….OMG! It was basically worth to go laugh our butts off. Drunken old people dancing are hilarious! Some were doing ballet moves on that small platform while others looked like they were having seizures attacks. The first DJ wasn’t that good, but as the night went on, the next DJ was better. After 1am we decided we couldn’t take it anymore and called it a night.
June 6th :
Wu Xuan came so when we woke up, we decided to use her Chinese skills to help us out and find us food! We were hungry so we decided to have some hot pot. It’s been a while since I had hot pot so I was excited. We asked around what was a good hot pot place and went there. It was near Tian Yi square so we were happy we got to walk around. When we went, we were the only ones eating but after a while people started to flow in.
After lunch we decided to hit up the bell tower market and just have a glance. We saw an arcade and decided to play a few rounds. We played bball, a water/beer pouring game, wack-a-penguin/artic animal, and even racing games. It was intense! After all that, we hit up a small dessert shop called ‘2 girls’ and ate some small desserts. The place was all graffiti-ed up and so we decided to contribute as well.
Since it was about dinner time after we ate dessert, we went to a sea food restaurant that looked okay. We ordered some random seafood and ate. There was a cute little girl there who danced for us and even showed Nia some moves. She was really cute. The owner met his wife on QQ an online chat place sort of like our MSN or ICQ. Then he decided to open the seafood shop with her and had their daughter. She was 6 ½ years old. Such a cutie.
