Wednesday: Give (and start marking) final exams...possibly some Muslim place downtown for supper with Jeff, Lee, Will et al
Thursday: Give out my last exam (and fingers crossed) get everything marked, done and submitted by 6pm that afternoon.....Thursday night go out with David and his Wife for Roast Duck (and more bijou!)
Friday: Go to Shanhaiguan with some students (probably to see some more temples...which to be honest, are becoming like churches in Europe......they are really quite spectacular, but seen one, seen them all?)
.......(and a bit of a change from the original plan here as I now think I can make it work so that I leave Qinhuangdao on Sunday and spend a couple of days in Beijing before heading home...if so.....)
Saturday: pack, clean up my apartment and get ready to go
Sunday morning: head to Beijing...tour around there until Wednesday, when I catch my plane to go home!
Tuesday's Activities
As per above, lunch today was at the Korean lady restaurant. This is likely my favourite "lunch" meal, and I probably go here at least once or twice a week. The dish is kind of like a personal hot pot meal (refer picture). The rice gets kind of crunchy, it is a little spicy, has lots of veggies and is just awesome!
The price is 11rmb and includes a big beer (or $1.57cdn)...as the weather got hotter, I'd usually go for a bottle of water instead of a beer, and in those cases the price was .....11rmb!
P.S. She is called the Korean Lady because she escaped from North Korea...and both her and her cook/helper are very nice.....and as you can tell from below, they LOVE getting their pictures taken!!!!...anyway I will miss these little lunches.
In the afternoon, I walked for about 3 hours on the beach. It is surprisingly easy to go this long as there is always a kind of "I wonder what's around the next corner aspect to these walks"....and I think these types of days are my favourite. You just see a little bit of everything!
Here is a recap of some of the "happenings" along the Beach on Tuesday afternoon (with related pictures below)
1. I finally saw a little Chinese fishing boat in action. These pictures capture how and what they do....it was especially surprising to see just how shallow the sea is here (the tractor that drove out to the boat and back was a LONG way out there!...I left one picture natural versus zoom so that you could get the idea)
2. Grown men really do "play" on the beach together in China! Next time everyone is at the lake, all the men can go over to the beach and play water games
3. Weddings are a VERY big deal here and you see quite a few wedding pictures being taken all over. I understand that the bride rents several wedding dresses (yes, plural) in various styles and colours (for example a white dress, a blue one, green etc.). They (bride and groom) then get wedding pictures taken in these various colours in different locations. This is all done long before the wedding day so that these photo's can be done up and given out as a wedding gifts to all the guests (which seems like a pretty good idea?).
I can also tell you that one of the parts of this process that looked pretty familiar to me/Canada is that the groom looks totally bored.....and seems kind of like an "extra" hanging out at the movie set!
4. I wasn't able to get a picture of our "BBQ" on Saturday night because it was dark out and the camera has trouble focusing....but our BBQ looked the same as the young gents in the picture below
5. Yes, they were clam hunting in Bedaihe the other day - these two clam hunters were happy to show me their catch!
6. Lots of pictures look blurry because the poor little automatic camera has trouble focusing due to the haze/pollution/fog that is ever-present. The picture shown below is taken looking directly at the sun (it doesn't burn your retina's here!!!!)
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