I'm Derek McNamara, an Irish guy who was working in Dalian, China as an Oral English teacher in Dalian Maritime University.Now in Chengdu studying Chinese in Southwest University of Finance and Economics

Saturday, December 03, 2005

Weather Outside Is Frightful...

Winter has officially arrived in Dalian! We had our first snow last night and we had a front row seat in the pub to watch it all! Went to a different place last night. The boys call it a Nepalese bar. It was pretty nice. No shite music and quite lively! Lots of drunken foreigners around the place! A guitar was then spotted hanging on the wall, so I was handed it and we had a bit of a singing session Great craic! I like a good sing-song.

The snow started falling after midnight I think. By the time we left the place around 3am, there was a good 2 or 3 inches of snow there, so we had a good old-fashioned snow fight!! Really Christmassy atmsphere! All in all, a good night was had! Fair play to the taxi-man on the way home. People thought the taxi drivers wouldn't slow down enough, but he was grand.

Here’s the view from my bedroom window when I got home:

Today, I had to brave the weather to go and sort out paying for the plane ticket to Taiwan. It was grand. I went with a student to the bank and he paid with his credit card and I gave him the money. And then we went for a lovely Chinese hot pot! No better way to keep out the winter Chill! Here is a pic of a snowy scene in the uni. I wanted to take more but my battery died.

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