These past few days the weather has been perfect - 70s, warm, breezy and sunny and everyone has wanted to be outside all day. We've been busy and there's been lots of fun things going on.
This week has been especially fun for me as my students have "practical training" which means I have the week off. This worked out well as this week we have the faculty/staff co-ed volleyball tournament, Sean's birthday party, the Germans' goodbye party (they called it the German Sausage Fest), an ultimate frisbee game or two on campus and our departure for Beijing on Thursday night.
Putting together the grill
A couple of afternoons Sean has gotten 10 people together to play ultimate frisbee. Most of these people had never played before but everyone that played for the first time walked away happy and eager to play again (and not to mention out of breath and sweaty).
By far, the most interesting event of the week was the "German Sausage Fest" which was the goodbye party the German interns held for their friends and students. They had been wanting to do a real outside barbecue with authentic German hot dogs, bread and beer. They bought a grill, charcoal and all of the supplies and after coaxing the charcoal for awhile we had a delicious feast. The students were absolutely curious and delighted by the whole ordeal. My favorite part of the night was watching one of the Chinese students man the grill with chopsticks.
Tomorrow night is Sean's birthday party which is doubling as the Germans' goodbye party as they leave the next day for Shanghai for their flight home. While all of the events and parties are lots of fun, they are bittersweet as they bring us one step closer to bidding farewell to the Middle Kingdom and all of our friends we've met here. It's going to be ridiculously hard to leave.
The guys - seems like there are always foreign men aplenty in China
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