Hi, I thought you might like to see who I’ve been hanging around with this semester, It’s been a mixture of foreign teachers, foreign students and just people living in Dalian.
These are the male foreign teachers (minus David). Matt, John and Eric are on main campus while me and Russell (lying down) work on the software campus.
*Matt is giving the v’s but it just means a peace sign in the US.
We had a party at our apartment for Halloween, and then there was a party the night after at my friends bar/cafe.
(left to right, Louis, me, Margaret, Jacqueline, Marianna and David)
(left to right, Louis, Matt, Margaret, Russ, Jacqueline and Marianna)
(left to right, Louis, a little girl and Daniel)
Above is Fan Yu who is the head of our English department and Edward next to her is a work colleague. Below is Wendy, she teaches English with me and Russell on the Software campus and she’s married to Adam who owns the bar/cafe.
Below is Adam, he owns Blackbeans, a cafe during the day and a bar at night, I have been going there regularly since arriving in Dalian.
Bellow from left to right is Emily, Sunny and Cassie. Emily is my Chinese teacher and I do language exchange with Sunny. She is a Chinese teacher who wants to improve her English and I’m an English teacher who wants to improve his Chinese, pretty good arrangement.
This is Emily trying to teach me Chinese while I’m playing with my new Camera. I have been taking Lessons with Emily for around 9 Months now, twice a week. I’ve made a lot of progress with her.
We did laser-tag a few weeks ago, it was really good, the Chinese put the same effort in to laser-tag as we put in to paintballing back home.
I mentioned in another post about how Chinese people love Basketball, well they also love to go to KTV which is like karaoke, but you rent out a whole room for just your group, or just yourself if you want to. Below is Kim, John and Matt.
Matt and Eric really going for it.
One of my friends has just left Dalian, he arrived the same time as me, for his leaving party we all dressed up as him with white caps big noses, black t-shirts and cigarettes behind the ear. Below is the man himself
*Thanks Matt for the Halloween and laser tag pics.