Long Time No Blog

It seems like a while since I last posted something!It's now Sunday. Let's see what I've been up to. Well, Thursday I had a class at noon. These guys were a bit livelier, although they have the habit of speaking Chinese sometimes, which will have to be remedied. I also went to a school to see about Chinese classes. I am gong to have a class tomorrow to see what it's like!
Don’t think I got up to anything else too exciting that day!

On Friday, I was introduced to the delights of QQ, which is a Chinese chat program. Most Chinese people seem to use this rather than Yahoo or MSN chat. It' a handy way to learn Chinese, talking to all sorts of people! I got Chinese dictionary software today, which makes the whole thing easier, since when you hover over a word, it will show the meaning! Maybe a bit too easy.

Had my 4 o’clock class on Friday, which went quite well. They seem very keen on learning songs rather than speaking English. It was interesting what they thought about what men look for in women and vice versa. Most reckoned that looks aren’t important. Fair play to them!

Went for a few drinks with the 2 Aussies in a place not too far from the Uni. They had draught beer at 3 Yuan a glass (maybe 500ml). We had a couple of them and then got some food. After that, we saw that some people had pitchers of beer. Well, we said we’d have some of that and ordered 3 of them! The waiter brought one over. He hadn’t realised that we wanted one each!!! Towards the end, we thought it would be a great idea to sing a few Irish songs. Luckily there weren’t too many others left in the restaurant! One table actually clapped. I will take it as a complement! Fair play to the Aussie boys for knowing loads of songs! So, at the end of the night we had to pay the grand total of around 5 euro each for the food and drink! Not bad!!
Saturday, woke up with a sore head, not surprisingly! Didn’t have a very eventful day. Spoke Chinese to a few people and relaxed. Went to our usual place up the road for some food from the stalls. Very tasty.

Which brings us to today. I met with some of the postgraduate students. I wanted to meet some Chinese people my age. So I met some of them and we all had a nice chat. Well, I want to learn more Chinese and they want to learn more English, so everybody is a winner!