Today we had a festive lunch with Chuck’s friend Joni to celebrate Chuck’s birthday. Monday is the day but I work in the afternoon and Joni will be in Zhongdong, the new east district in Zhengzhou, for the week working there and we would not be able to celebrate. Joni also had a friend of his from work, Kerry, join us and the restaurant owner (a friend of Joni’s) also joined the celebration and brought a friend to the celebration. Nate and I will take Chuck out again for dinner on Tuesday evening and I give him his gifts on Monday. Today was nice with a traditional Chinese meal called ‘HOT POT’ but it turned into the show off your foreigner friends so once the celebration was over we got home, changed clothes and went back out on our own. We were able to return the DVD that we bought yesterday that didn’t work in the player, just wouldn’t load, sorry Nate! It was his pick that was acting silly. We are still looking for ‘The Simpson’s Movie’ the store didn’t have it but they had seasons 1-22 on DVD. After that we went on a search for books and found the campus bookstore for another college in town. They have a large selection of English/Chinese books and we were able to get some classics for Nate to read and some classics that I want to read again. In my English class last week we were working on pronouns and the passage we were working on is from Lewis Carroll’s “Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland,” and that is one of the books that I found for me to re-read. I also got ‘Jane Eyre’ and ‘Wuthering Heights’ the Bronte sisters are being well represented here. I also took a look in the primary section and found a book that is simple Chinese and has pinyin. The most exciting part is that I opened the book and recognized several symbols. Check out the pictures as I got some at Wanda Plaza when we went grocery shopping at Wal-Mart on Saturday and some of the events of today. I don’t know what the reason is but Wanda Plaza had lots of bamboo plants in front of Pizza Hut in the lobby of the mall. I am thinking that this is just a spring display as I know of no reason other than spring is coming and blooming things have started to bloom. Well, my nose told me that this week. With the demolition and pollen in the air my sinuses have been having an interesting week. Well that is all for now. Talk to you more in the week.
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