A night out with the basketball team

Today Jen and I watched a basketball game between the teachers at our school and another school in Liyang. It was a really good game.

After the game we were invited to join the players from both teams for dinner at the school's restaurant (located in the same building as our apartment, which is nice for us!). The food as always was plentiful and delicious. There was chicken stomach, beef tripe, shrimp, egg, noodles, duck, pork, several things that I don't know the name for, and lots and lots of BEER! Wow, make sure you are ready to handle some alcohol before dining with the Chinese. They say cheers constantly throughout the meal. Before you take a drink you should stand up and say ganbei (bottoms up!) to someone else at the table. Then you down your drink and fill it back up for the next ganbei. We were dining with two basketball teams, including coaches, principles, and vice principles from both schools. So there were a lot of people! That is a lot of "ganbei"! It was a lot of fun.

Not too much else to report. Monday morning Jen and I made our speech. That went really well. I think everybody understood most of what I said in Chinese. They took pictures so hopefully we can get a copy.

Yesterday I played a game of go against a six year old who beat me hands down. These kids are trained from a very young age and they are amazing. Arrangements are being made for me to get some lessons from the go teacher here at the school.

That's it for now. Later!