A little before Christmas we had an office Christmas party, well the foreign teachers, and we had a meal in the ningbo university hotel paid for by the company which was nice. When we arrived Mina and Yuki the Japanese teachers had a young boy sat with them talking with them, apparently on his fathers orders. His father, a fellow teacher, had told him to take the chances to speak with as many foreign people as possible and improve his English. When Chris and I sat down he jumped up abandoning the Asian looking girls and sat between me and Chris, there followed the most awful company for a meal, a young, bored, Chinese kid trying tto use the chance as a free English lesson, I wasn't in the mood and basically ignored him as best I could leaving Chris sat between him and the kids dad and sending the evening stuck there, sorry Chris!
I made my excuses and shot away as early as I could but Chris stayed on, we were both gifted a present from the university though, a 'silk' scarf, mine was a disgusting orange brown with a horse tackle motif, awful, at least I have something to clean the bathroom with now!
A few pictures of the 'party' attached thanks to Gary's camera! Try to spot the awful kid and a bored looking me!
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