It has been almost two weeks since I went to Hong Kong and it has flown by. My co-workers have continued to be so generous and I have really gotten closer to my family. Last Thurs our co-workers told us at lunch that they had activities planned for after work. They always do this, plan these cool activities and then not tell us until 4 hours before. But of course we don't want to miss anything and even if we did, we wouldn't know how to tell them! So, afterwork we went to dinner with them. We ate in a private room, like we often do when we have a larger group. Phil and I road with Sue (our favorite at work, she is too good to us) and Mr. Lang (he is a driver and is a fun old man) and we met Chapman(our boss who showed us around HK) and Jenny (another girl we work with) at the restaurant. After we were seated, Chapman (or Chap-nasty! as I call him, its his street name, hehe) busted out a bottle of white wine. Now this is not like the white wine is America...a little less sweet, a little more rubbing alcohol taste! Seriously, this stuff is stout! You drink it out of cups 1/2 the size of our shot glasses. And they always like to cheers and everyone downs it. It singe the nostrils!!!! And tears were coming down my eyes after the first shot...yeah, they made me drink 4 more!!! Phil had like 8! I couldn't believe, I was sitting at the table with these two tiny Chinese woman and they were throwin em back like men and I wanted to throw mine over my shoulder! But after dinner, they took us bowling so you can imagine how fun that was. Just fyi, the bowling alley is the first thing that is exactly the same as in the US I lost to Phil two games in a row so that kinda killed my buzz, I hate loosing but I still got him in badminton and ping pong!!!!

On Friday night we went out with this French guy we met. His name is Fredrick. His parents were both born in China but moved to France to open a Chinese restaurant, funny huh. He was born in France and speaks good enlish and pretty good mandarin. He is hear living at the same University I live at and is doing a language study abroad to get better at madarin. We went out to eat with him and then out to a club and bar on the Pearl River. The Pearl River is beautiful because it is lit with so many animated neon lights from the buildings. The club we went to was really chic and it kind of reminded me of something that would be in downtown Dallas or even NYC. It had a dj that played really good American music. There is a dice game on all the tables at the bars that everyone plays. I think it is kind of a drinking game, looks like yahtzee to me. So we were there for a while and then went to a more laid back bar. It had a huge outside patio where we sat and listened to a girl play the guitar. And don't worry, she definitely sand "My Heart Will Go On" and Fred and Phil were trying to get me to get up and to a duet with her. A little Karaoke flashback if you will. We got home pretty late that night but it sure was fun!

The next day, I went to eat dim sum brunch with my host family. It was soooo good. Dim Sum is just a type of meal that people usually have for brunch. There are over 2000 different dim sum dishes. They are prepared in small portions and the waiters push them around and you pick what you want. There are many dumplings and sweet desserts to choose from. After that, Xiao Rong wanted me to go with her to get her hair cut. I ended up cutting mine too! It was such a weird/good experience. In China, it is standard in all salons for the washing to last atleast 20 minutes. So you lay on this fully reclined chair and they message your head and shampoo it. My hair guy didn't speak any English but he did a good job!

Ok, my last advernture concerns cooking. My host family taught me how to make dumplings! I cannot tell you how cool that was. I came home from work and they had all the stuff and i video taped a lot of it so I could remember. They tasted so good and aren't that hard, well, kinda hard. When I get back, maybe I could make some for you!!!!!