This last week has been crazy busy and filled with grading final exams, watching soccer, goodbye lunches, collecting last paychecks, receiving strange and funny going-away gifts, dinners and parties and much picture taking. Last night some of the teachers from our university as well as from Web went to a rather new bar in town called "Thank Goodness It's Summer" (ie a copied version of TGIF in the U.S.). We had American style burgers and fries and watched soccer - they showed the England game downstairs and the USA game upstairs. It was strange to be in an Applebees style restaurant in Changzhou with odd pieces of flair and decorations around to set the mood. I even found a pair of wooden shoes from Holland! Crazy!
Graduation happens this week on campus which means that students can rent a cap and gown and take pictures in various poses and places around campus. Some of my students from my optional English course came over today to take pictures with me and Sean has had several (kind of stalker-esque behavior if you ask me) female admirers call him to take pictures with them around campus. Picture-taking is a big deal in China as is posing for the pictures. My students taught me a few of the poses but there are also many websites and blogs devoted to them like this one called, appropriately, Asian Poses. It is cool to make the peace sign, form a heart, make a claw, form horns, frame your face, act like a cat.... the list goes on and on. The culture of photography is entirely different here and I am constantly learning new poses or what makes for a quality picture in China. The end of a school year, graduation and going-away parties makes for solid excuses to pose like crazy and snap picture after picture.
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