Disclaimer: Mum and Grandma, its not as bad as it seems! I was safe and careful the whole night don't worry! We all looked after eachother!
Friday
On Friday we were all taken out for hot pot by Mr Qi, Mrs Wang and some other teachers from our school. It was really tasty! We started with fish and then once we had eaten our fill we went on to meat! Mike, Cecilia and I were sat at the table with all of the women so naturally we were expected to eat all the meat. I quickly became full much to their disbelief...
On Friday we were all taken out for hot pot by Mr Qi, Mrs Wang and some other teachers from our school. It was really tasty! We started with fish and then once we had eaten our fill we went on to meat! Mike, Cecilia and I were sat at the table with all of the women so naturally we were expected to eat all the meat. I quickly became full much to their disbelief...
After hot pot it was photo time, each Chinese person wanted a picture with us all, it took ages!
After photos were finally finished, we said goodbye and went to the office to see Fish. She was going to go to the police station to try and sort out our police checks, you need them to get a CRB check now. She came back and the police had said no. This is very worrying! I need this police check or I can't start my teacher training!! AND WE LEAVE ON MONDAY!!! Really scared and anxious now and there is very little I can do. Fish tried ringing around but in typical Chinese fashion each person gave her different and often conflicting information. This is my future on the line! I might even have to miss my train to Beijing to ensure I get the certificate in my hands, I don't like the idea of a 24 hour train ride by myself though...
After the office said there was nothing more I or they could do until the next working day, I reluctantly headed off to find dinner with the guys. We decided on burgers at Bill's Place and they were good! We had decided, well Will had decided, that we needed a night out in Xining before we left all five of us and Friday was the night chosen. So we started drinking... I had a long island ice tea at Bill's Place and then we walked to a small bar called Meet and Watch or something like that. We got a couple of beers and then headed to a bar called U2 where we played drinking games with yet more beer.
After the office said there was nothing more I or they could do until the next working day, I reluctantly headed off to find dinner with the guys. We decided on burgers at Bill's Place and they were good! We had decided, well Will had decided, that we needed a night out in Xining before we left all five of us and Friday was the night chosen. So we started drinking... I had a long island ice tea at Bill's Place and then we walked to a small bar called Meet and Watch or something like that. We got a couple of beers and then headed to a bar called U2 where we played drinking games with yet more beer.
After drinking games we headed to another bar and walked in, it quickly became apparent that this was a drag queen bar...
Now I found this hilarious but poor Mike and Will didn't know what to do or where to look... Will was even checking one of them out before I told them that the woman was actually a man. The look on his face was priceless! Mike, bless him, didn't know what to do or how to act. This was the first time he had ever seen a drag queen and he just didn't know how to react, he was really worried about what I'd think of him though. I remember my first drag queen, she/he scared the living daylights out of me! Nevertheless we stayed for a drink and Cecilia and enjoyed the show while the guys sat there awkwardly. Interesting fact! Some years ago a man in drag was voted the sexiest woman in Sweden!!!!
Anyway after the drag queens we headed to Friday bar, this was quickly turning into a bit of a gay night out! Mike was happy though because beer is cheap there! We walked in and played a few drinking games including one where my luck was so bad I had to down my drink multiple times...
We then headed downstairs and this is when the night got even more interesting! We went down to the club and Will and Deena decided that they would get me a man. Unsuccessfully I may add, don't worry Mum, Dad and Grandma I was very careful and didn't do anything to compromise my stay in China. Anyway the music was good so I was dancing, the guys were gobsmacked, I guess they didn't think I could shake my booty!
I soon found myself surrounded my Chinese men but then things took a turn after one of them grabbed me somewhere no one should grab in public. In a second Mike and Will were on stage with me dancing with me and forcing the man in question to retreat slightly. Not for long though, he hit Will in the groin and despite Mike shouting in Chinese that he was my boyfriend (what a sweety!), he kept coming on to me.
We retreated back to the table and Will told the bar staff that the man was making us feel uncomfortable, the man was soon kicked out and we continued to have fun and dance.
However the man soon reappeared so we retreated again.
The bar staff kicked him out again and came over and apologised. The head bar man a cute Chinese guy in high heels asked to dance with me and the pregnant owner gave us some free beers to apologise!
It soon got to 230am and we decided to go home, the bar staff all escorted us out and into a taxi. Bless their cotton socks!
It soon got to 230am and we decided to go home, the bar staff all escorted us out and into a taxi. Bless their cotton socks!
We saw the man crossing the road and attempt to climb over the fence, he face-planted the road on the other side. Serves the pervert right!
The taxi ride home was uneventful, apart from the unavoidable taxi driver wobbly where he tries to kick us out and demands more money. We got in and collapsed into our beds, what a night!! I had a really good time!!
The taxi ride home was uneventful, apart from the unavoidable taxi driver wobbly where he tries to kick us out and demands more money. We got in and collapsed into our beds, what a night!! I had a really good time!!
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