Hot Pot Rat, New Yrs, Chinese Wedding
Published by O-CO under on 05:26
(havent proof read so I apologize if the grammar is off)
Well the holiday season in which we celebrate in the west has come and gone rather quickly and awkwardly, for me at least. China doesnt celebrate these holidays or even know what they are about, but they try and decorate and get into the holiday spirit a somewhat, which is flattering to a westerner. Its because they are soo interested in how we live, what we like, and what we do that its fun for them to copy the way we observe these historical events in our culture. I say this a lot I think, but if you give the Chinese people a reason to throw a party or have a celebration they wont hesitate one bit. Christmas is a good one for them to celebrate because they are soo addicted to using lights especially bright neon flashing ones and the color red is lucky to them so Xmas is that much more appealing. The holiday season isnt shit without your close friends and family, as Ive learned over the last month or so. The days of these holidays are just another day of the calendar, it takes family to make these moments special or worth celebrating. Grant it, I had a lot of fun here, but if I could have been home for those days and it not cost me a fortune I would have been home.
We decided to have a small New Years party at our friends bar in downtown because is fairly inexpensive and we can play our own music. It was fun, even though it was the most boring New Years party ever. They dont have a countdown so we were all looking at our watches and shit. No one wanted to do shots with me. We didnt have that many hot Chinese girls around to dance with. I wanted to go to the clubs but no one did until Michelle and Guo got drunk after 12am. So us 3 went to Yi Ren and partied pretty hard New Years morning with some of our club friends. They were passing all kinds of drinks and drugs around the table, it was wild. I dont know what the pills were but they didnt do shit to me, the Chinese people looked pretty messed up though and I asked one guy and he said MDMA, but I dont know for sure. It was weak as hell if thats what it was. Some of them were snorting K and blowing the powder down each others throats, which is nasty. We got pretty lit up. They had a bunch of hot Chinese girls around and I figured they were all hookers or worked for the bar drinking peoples beer all night. I danced the whole time with Michelle and girls who werent scared to or shy. Some of them wanted me to go to the VIP room after the club closed but I wasnt in the mood for dirty hooker sex or more drugs so we went home around 4. The New Years party started off slow and ended up pretty wild once we got to my scene, the club.
We found a new mall that was just built with shopping and food places the next day. Me and two guys went exploring new places to drink at and party in. We ran into an ice bar that was pretty sick. It was -5 degrees Celsius inside and was completely frozen. Really cool place. You have to wear these huge parkas before you go in because its all snow and ice inside. It was small but we will go back with a group of people soon. Summer it will be slammed!
Last night we went to one of the Chinese teachers at the school's wedding party. It was at a pretty nice Chinese restaurant and all us English teachers had our own table. It is a customary to give the bride a money in a red package so we all gave her 100 UN. They hand out expensive packs of cigarette, which still taste like shit, and everything is paid for. All you can drink beer, wine, bijo, waay too much food for us to finish. They just keep bringing out dishes and putting them on the lazy susan in the middle of the table. When they run out of room they just pile the plates on top of each other. All traditional Chinese dishes. It was really nice. When the bride and groom make it into the eating area they have to walk across a bunch of fireworks which was exciting. I though her dress was going to go up in flames. During the dinner the bride and groom go around to every table cheers-ing with everyone. They are supposed to drink bijo, which is the strong ass rice wine that tastes like absinthe, but we think they just had water in the shot glasses because even I would have been on the floor after going to 30+ tables. I figure there was about 300 people there. It was a fun experience and I was glad to be a part of it. One of those cultural experiences someone who just travels through wouldnt get to see.
Funny Story--
Some of us went to dinner the other night to a place close to my apartment for 'hot pot'. Ive explained it before, but basically every person orders a pot of soup that is putting front of you over a flame. Then the table orders all kinds of meat veggies tofu and stuff, raw. You have to pick and chose what you want to eat and cook it in your 'hot pot'. Its a really fun way to eat out and I think it would catch on in the States. I always get the spicy frog one. So there are like 10 of us eating and after about 2hrs we finish our food so we divide up the bill and start to pay the women. At this moment I see my friend, to my right, twitch and jump back from the table and then I see a big rat run across the table and jump on the floor. He ran around the table once and then disappeared. Some of the girls screamed and jumped on their chairs and us guys were like ''what the fuck??'' I looked at the manager, who we were paying, and the waitress and they had the most embarrassed faces on. It was really funny, yet pretty disgusting. The damn thing was pretty big, probably around 2 lbs. I made a joke saying that he got away lucky because I would have thrown him in the 'hot pot'. I had my Chinese friend translate it to the wait staff to lighten the tension a little. We wound up getting a small discount I believe, back home the meal would have been free, but here in China a rat is no big deal really. We couldnt figure out where he could have come from though because there were no holes or anything in the room. The only thing I could figure was that he was under the table by the flames waiting until they all went out and then he would come out, grab some food, and take off again. It was weird. He came up the guys leg, he said, to my right straight onto the table and down the opposite side. Crazy bastard, like I said he was lucky we all werent Chinese or crazy fucks like me!
Now I am at school about to teach one of my small 3yr old classes about the house and different rooms of a house. What fun!! (yea right) Then after Im going out to get 'pissed' with my friends. (Pissed is the English way to say 'get drunk') I have two Chinese girls coming on Wednesday to couch surf with me, which should be fun. They will be my first. Oh yea and my sister finally moved into her new place with her boyfriend so I am by myself, hence the reason I can host couch surfers. Im excited!
Well the holiday season in which we celebrate in the west has come and gone rather quickly and awkwardly, for me at least. China doesnt celebrate these holidays or even know what they are about, but they try and decorate and get into the holiday spirit a somewhat, which is flattering to a westerner. Its because they are soo interested in how we live, what we like, and what we do that its fun for them to copy the way we observe these historical events in our culture. I say this a lot I think, but if you give the Chinese people a reason to throw a party or have a celebration they wont hesitate one bit. Christmas is a good one for them to celebrate because they are soo addicted to using lights especially bright neon flashing ones and the color red is lucky to them so Xmas is that much more appealing. The holiday season isnt shit without your close friends and family, as Ive learned over the last month or so. The days of these holidays are just another day of the calendar, it takes family to make these moments special or worth celebrating. Grant it, I had a lot of fun here, but if I could have been home for those days and it not cost me a fortune I would have been home.
We decided to have a small New Years party at our friends bar in downtown because is fairly inexpensive and we can play our own music. It was fun, even though it was the most boring New Years party ever. They dont have a countdown so we were all looking at our watches and shit. No one wanted to do shots with me. We didnt have that many hot Chinese girls around to dance with. I wanted to go to the clubs but no one did until Michelle and Guo got drunk after 12am. So us 3 went to Yi Ren and partied pretty hard New Years morning with some of our club friends. They were passing all kinds of drinks and drugs around the table, it was wild. I dont know what the pills were but they didnt do shit to me, the Chinese people looked pretty messed up though and I asked one guy and he said MDMA, but I dont know for sure. It was weak as hell if thats what it was. Some of them were snorting K and blowing the powder down each others throats, which is nasty. We got pretty lit up. They had a bunch of hot Chinese girls around and I figured they were all hookers or worked for the bar drinking peoples beer all night. I danced the whole time with Michelle and girls who werent scared to or shy. Some of them wanted me to go to the VIP room after the club closed but I wasnt in the mood for dirty hooker sex or more drugs so we went home around 4. The New Years party started off slow and ended up pretty wild once we got to my scene, the club.We found a new mall that was just built with shopping and food places the next day. Me and two guys went exploring new places to drink at and party in. We ran into an ice bar that was pretty sick. It was -5 degrees Celsius inside and was completely frozen. Really cool place. You have to wear these huge parkas before you go in because its all snow and ice inside. It was small but we will go back with a group of people soon. Summer it will be slammed!
Last night we went to one of the Chinese teachers at the school's wedding party. It was at a pretty nice Chinese restaurant and all us English teachers had our own table. It is a customary to give the bride a money in a red package so we all gave her 100 UN. They hand out expensive packs of cigarette, which still taste like shit, and everything is paid for. All you can drink beer, wine, bijo, waay too much food for us to finish. They just keep bringing out dishes and putting them on the lazy susan in the middle of the table. When they run out of room they just pile the plates on top of each other. All traditional Chinese dishes. It was really nice. When the bride and groom make it into the eating area they have to walk across a bunch of fireworks which was exciting. I though her dress was going to go up in flames. During the dinner the bride and groom go around to every table cheers-ing with everyone. They are supposed to drink bijo, which is the strong ass rice wine that tastes like absinthe, but we think they just had water in the shot glasses because even I would have been on the floor after going to 30+ tables. I figure there was about 300 people there. It was a fun experience and I was glad to be a part of it. One of those cultural experiences someone who just travels through wouldnt get to see.
Funny Story--
Some of us went to dinner the other night to a place close to my apartment for 'hot pot'. Ive explained it before, but basically every person orders a pot of soup that is putting front of you over a flame. Then the table orders all kinds of meat veggies tofu and stuff, raw. You have to pick and chose what you want to eat and cook it in your 'hot pot'. Its a really fun way to eat out and I think it would catch on in the States. I always get the spicy frog one. So there are like 10 of us eating and after about 2hrs we finish our food so we divide up the bill and start to pay the women. At this moment I see my friend, to my right, twitch and jump back from the table and then I see a big rat run across the table and jump on the floor. He ran around the table once and then disappeared. Some of the girls screamed and jumped on their chairs and us guys were like ''what the fuck??'' I looked at the manager, who we were paying, and the waitress and they had the most embarrassed faces on. It was really funny, yet pretty disgusting. The damn thing was pretty big, probably around 2 lbs. I made a joke saying that he got away lucky because I would have thrown him in the 'hot pot'. I had my Chinese friend translate it to the wait staff to lighten the tension a little. We wound up getting a small discount I believe, back home the meal would have been free, but here in China a rat is no big deal really. We couldnt figure out where he could have come from though because there were no holes or anything in the room. The only thing I could figure was that he was under the table by the flames waiting until they all went out and then he would come out, grab some food, and take off again. It was weird. He came up the guys leg, he said, to my right straight onto the table and down the opposite side. Crazy bastard, like I said he was lucky we all werent Chinese or crazy fucks like me!
Now I am at school about to teach one of my small 3yr old classes about the house and different rooms of a house. What fun!! (yea right) Then after Im going out to get 'pissed' with my friends. (Pissed is the English way to say 'get drunk') I have two Chinese girls coming on Wednesday to couch surf with me, which should be fun. They will be my first. Oh yea and my sister finally moved into her new place with her boyfriend so I am by myself, hence the reason I can host couch surfers. Im excited!
