Absinthe, Classrooms, and Chity Walls... of my

Well let me warn you that the quality may not be the highest below. These are photos and videos taken from my Chinese cell phone.

To start, I was invited by a graduate student auditing my class to go for a bike ride around the city walls. We rented a two seater bicycle and took off.

We enjoyed great views of the city. Unfortunately we started at 4:50 and the bikes had to be returned at 6:00. Generally it take 1 hour and 30 minutes to get around the wall. We made it back with 2 minutes to spare.

Below is a video from my classroom. I gave them an assignment to work on during class. While they were busy working I filmed this video. Not very exciting, but at least you can see what the classrooms look like.

For Halloween I had one tricker treater. Jacob from who is the son of Ben and Angela came down dressed as a penguin. Luckily I had some candy on hand.

Last week some friends and I decided to have a guys night out. My friend Ben on the fifth floor is married with two children. My friend Rory across the hall has a fiance that has been living with him for 2 years. And my chinese friend Rex is an eligible bachelor with less game than Nima. We decided to go out and have a guys night out on the town. We started having some Korean BBQ near the drum tower. 300 yuan tab between 4 people (thats a lot). Dinner was served with a number of beers. We left the resturant and headed to bar street and had a few drinks at a live music venue, but the music sucked so we bounced to Park Qin. I had been telling my homebody friends about this place for a while. We got there and ordered 12 shots for about 12 us dollars. Had a few cocktails and then ben saw the sign that stated the special on absinthe this evening.

(Warning there is some inappropriate language in the videos below)

We were already pretty loose at this point, so what the hell. We ended up taking 3 large shots of this ether and most of the night was a blur. By the Way - absinthe isn't illegal in china, se we were partaking in a completely legal action while drinking this devilish concoction.

You may notice my friend Rex's attempts to pick up on the bartender. Absolutely no game whatsoever. Makes Nima look like the Chuck Norris of Love.

Towards the end of the evening, Ben was playing with his wedding ring and dropped it. The entire bar spent 20 minutes looking for his wedding ring. We turned on the lights and people used lighters and flashlights to look for it. I can only imagine what was going through the minds of the Chinese bartenders when they found out they had to look for some guys, who had been drinking absinthe all night, wedding ring.