Yes..Now I have been here for 3 weeks or so. My chinese is starting to pick up again, and I'm definitely back in the "chinese mode" of life. For the time beeing, I'm sharing an apartment with 4 other students at the school. It's a pretty good life, speaking chinese in the school and english in the evenings. But something says me it's a little bit to convenient. I might going to switch apartment soon, cause it's not really a big winner for my chinese this, to live with to many foreigners. It's time to get"local".Speaking of "getting local", last weekend was really good. Me and Jean went to this restaurant were we got to know Mr. Wang and his family (yes the family were only 3 people hehe). After some local beers Wang insisted on taking us this village outside Hangzhou the following day. We didn'treally take the guy serious in the beginning, cause if there is something drinking has taught me, is that what ever deal is made during the late hours, it aint gonna happen. But this was obviously not the thing with Mr. Wang. The next morning he called at 8.30 and was still very excited about taking us there (this is so far still the earliest I have got up from bed here, and it was a Sunday...say no more). But something told me that this Wang guy was worth a shot. And he sure was! During the day we visited some huge caves, which Wang insisted was the biggest in the HOLE WIDE WORLD.
Well.... they were big for sure and really amazing, but on this fact Wang probably got a bit too carried away.. We followed up by having some food and beers in a shady restaurant in the small town. Wang was obviously not too pleased with the food his friends in this restaurant prpared for us. He WANTED chicken. There is a small note to be done here though, the place didn't really have any chicken, but that didn't stop Mr. Wang. He took a quick look in the backyard, and came cack with YES a chicken! So after tapping it from blood, he got the feathers plucked off and the chef chopped it up and fried it in a big fat wok pan.
So eventually..... Chicken it was!
Thats what I like about this country, when all hope would haved been gone back home, it can be fixed in CHINA. So in that way, this is the land of opportunities...
