Men's Night

by Brad

So we have men's night every other Thursday Night. Each of the men on faculty and staff are responsible for planning a night. So far we have had pizza and a movie ("The Great Escape" Steve Mc Queen is so cool); bowling and pizza; pool and Japanese food; and badminton and hot pot. There are actually indoor badminton courts here. You can rent a court for 15 RMB (a little over $2) for an hour. On a given Men's Night we will have a Korean, a Canadian, 2 Chinese, a Russian, and four Americans (North Dakota; Oklahoma; Missouri/Oklahoma & a Razorback WOOOOOOOO PIG SOOOOOOOIE!). So far after a lot of hard fought competition, the Canadian teacher has won the pool and badmitton. I did OK at bowling during two games but I stunk up the third. I won the first game out right and was beat by the Canadian once and the Korean once. Pool was a mixed bag because we started out playing a round robin, but some people were so bad that their games were taking too long to play so we gave up and just played whomever was available. I think that the only activity that the Americans can have claimed to have won outright was the movie, just because Steve McQueen was so cool. But as I think about it..... he did not escape and the Canadian did.... dang Canadians.

I went to Qing Dao last Saturday with Laurel and Aubrey. We were on a bus with a couple of other families from the school. Laurel was getting some prep work done for her braces and to complete the root canal that was started last month. Aubrey went because..... she likes bus travel. We ate a cool restaurant called "The Diner". I had a cheese burger with french fries. I had been craving one of those. It was nice to have a real burger.

Well lots to do and tell. we have some video to upload. We will try to do that this weekend. We hope that you are enjoying the blog. Leave us a comment if you get the chance. It let's us know that you are reading the blog.