April 24, Tuesday
Today was just an easy day. I went to the store and then walked through the outside market. They had lots of chickens, ducks, geese, bunnies (small – I think for pets) and many kinds of fish. There were either eels or snakes – I didn’t look closely enough to determine which. (4 flights)
I called Marie. She had been trying to call me, but it was always busy. Then Heidi called. (Her brother-in-law is Douglas in Shanghai.) It turned out that Heidi had sent people the wrong phone # for me. It is really nice to talk to everyone.
Tonight was our first dinner with the students. The first two (Rui Tan and Jianping Xiao) had signed up quickly, so they had first choice from the restaurant list. The deal is that they pick the restaurant, make a reservation if needed, get us there and choose the food. This is quite stressful for them. It isn’t anything that most of them have had to do and they want to please Chuck.
The restaurant that they chose was Jin-Man-Lou. This may be the best place in town. When we told Hongfang about it the next day, her eyebrows went up when she heard the name of the place. It was quite fancy and had a wedding on the first floor. We had a room of our own on the 2nd floor. There was an elevator, YAH!
Both of these young men spoke good English, so we were able to have a nice chat during dinner. We think that they may have chosen a “set” menu because there didn’t seem to be enough talking for the number of dishes that we had.
We had duck on green beans, chicken mushrooms, cooked melon, 2 kinds of soup, shrimp, beef with vegetable, bok choy, and sweet potato bun and pancake for “main food”.
We had the waitress take our picture, and the boys got to take home the leftovers.
These students are both juniors.
They take 8 courses at a time.
(It was hard to tell how much outside work was required for each course.)
They lived on campus and one had 4 in a room, the other 5.
I think that they had a good time. They had heard about me imitating animals to order food (I think that this must have been a great story to pass around if the students have heard it.) so they understood why this was a really good thing for us.
They delivered us back to campus and we thanked them for a great evening. They had done a fabulous job.
(4 flights)
Only 8 flights today
We had the waitress take our picture, and the boys got to take home the leftovers. These students are both juniors. They take 8 courses at a time. (It was hard to tell how much outside work was required for each course.) They lived on campus and one had 4 in a room, the other 5. 
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