I got the bus over and met karen the company rep outside Nottingham uni and she drove the 2 minutes to the office, when we got there it then took another 10 minutes to find somewhere to park!
We went into the office block and their office was up on a high floor, I met all the staff but the boss, who wanted to talk to me, was not in!
I sat down with karen and went over what I had prepared, adding her suggestions and removing a few parts they didn't think we're needed.
We finished and the boss still wasn't back but another guy in the office, Kim, started chatting with me in chinese about coffee, he also loves coffee and so we talked for half an hour about where to get a good coffee, and how to get Starbucks to make a cheap latte using their daily blend.
After another half hour their boss finally came back and then sat down for a meeting with me, I expected karen and Kim, who could translate any words I don't know, to stay and help with the meeting but as soon as their boss came they told me she loves talking and can't speak much english, then ran away! Leaving me to a half hour business meeting with their boss in chinese!
Luckily the boss was a lovely woman and after the start where she used a lot of 4 letter sayings from ancient china, all of which I didn't understand, and started speaking using simpler language we got on ok! A few words I had to translate and a few times she had to explain but she could explain most of them in simpler chinese or with a similar word that I knew already, a good chinese test!
After the meeting karen and I went for dinner in Wanda plaza nearby and ate some tasty Hongkong food!
The first lesson was planned for a week after, I better get preparing!
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