As the title to this post suggests, this week was same 'ol in Jinan. Our teaching week was filled up with final exams! The trade off of having no lessons to plan was having to try and stay interested to 100 students talk about the same topics - of course in perfect Chinglish. We really should have written this earlier so we could have shared some comments from our learned students with you - for example when one student was talking about the four styles of cooking they listed off frying, steaming, boiling, and of course you can't forget exploding!
In the weekend Liv had her final Chinese lesson and Adam his final mountain men training session, after which we met up at a Buddhist Vegetarian restaurant to say thanks to Brad and Dave for all their amazing encouragement and body-bashing training sessions over the last year.
On her way to meet the boys at the restaurant, Liv experienced yet another example of the genuine helpfulness of the average Chinese person - being directionally challenged and therefore getting lost, Liv asked for directions and ended up having a personal escort right to the door of the restaurant!
The rest of the weekend was spent running errands and doing last minute shopping. Included in our errands was getting lots of things fixed - as is the Chinese way: wear and repair overrides throwing out and buying new. For less than $4 we had 2 pairs of shoes and a belt repaired while we sat on the side of the street with the fix-it man and people-watched.
Adlibing our Jinan.
Sunday, May 25, 2008
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