one of the very best things about living in China is seeing our Chinese good friends try new (aka, Western) things! Over the last couple of weeks the weather condition has been truly good as well as we’ve been trying to spend great deals of time outdoors, as well as we’ve been trying to include our Chinese friends.
A day in the park with some friends…and the safety and security guards!
Recently, we went to a close-by park for the day with our life assistant/friend right here in China, Standy. The only typical part of that day for him was playing badminton. He hated all of the common picnic foods we brought – pasta salad, potato salad, eco-friendly salad as well as chips. The only thing he liked were the nectarines, which he insisted were peaches. His food contribution? Ice cream! Not precisely a common picnic food. Chinese people just don’t picnic the method we do!
Nick as well as Standy playing badminton in the park…the only typical thing for Standy that day
This weekend, our associate had a BBQ at his house, which has a ideal rooftop patio as well as view of Yangzhou. He invited over a few of the Chinese mentor personnel as well, which was remarkable as we seldom get to hangout with them outside of work.
The guy dealing with the grill
At home, we are virtually increased on BBQ’s as well as have one practically every night. during the summertime everybody will get together as well as grill up some meats, have great deals of salads, music as well as of course, beer. This was such a foreign idea to our Chinese friends.
The very first concern they had when they were invited was: What do I wear? The response: Clothing.
The women at the BBQ
They have never been to a BBQ as well as didn’t understand what to bring or what to wear. They ended up calling us from the grocery store to state that they were going to bring some lettuce! They did end up bringing a large watermelon, which was ideal for the event.
Rosemary, Me as well as Colleen enjoying the sunshine!
It ended up being rather the night for them. They experienced Colombian as well as North American BBQ flavours, we played some common drinking games (of course, the Chinese women were only drinking juice), we were taught exactly how to salsa dance by our good friend as well as his sweetheart from Colombia as well as we even handled to all get locked out of the home as well as had to phone call a lock-smith at 11:00 at night.
Delicious grilled meats, vegetables as well as salads for the BBQ
I believe it was a quite great introduction to exactly how we would normally spend a summertime night in the western world…minus the camping, of course. We only have about a month as well as a half left right here in China as well as we hope to spend much more time with our Chinese good friends before we leave.
The women were so fascinated by our food that they were taking great deals of pictures of the meats as well as salads
My birthday is coming up as well as the women have invited us over to show us exactly how they would spend a common evening together – dumpling making. If you ask me, it seems like a quite great method to spend my birthday in China!
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