Friday, September 11, 2009
Today we went shopping at the RT Mart for groceries and a few other items for the apartment. I spent most of the day correcting papers for my writing class and Lugene worked on preparations for her class tomorrow. It will be at the West campus.
Earlier in the week, Xueruili, Lugene’s contact at the university, asked her if she would be interested in tutoring the family of a “high” government official. Lugene said, “yes”, so she arranged for us to go out to dinner with them tonight. We went to a very fancy Chinese restaurant. Each party had their own separate room. There were seven of us. We met the family. They are very nice. As far as we could tell, the father is in charge of water quality for Shandong province. We will be tutoring his wife and fourteen year old daughter each Saturday morning for an hour. They will come to our apartment in the hotel.
We sat around a round table with a large glass “lazy susan” in the middle of the table. They then started bringing in the food. We had beef and pork and fish and squid and shrimp and duck. We had vegetables and fried squash and eggplant and lotus roots and everything you can imagine. We then had dumplings. They were delicious. We ended it all with a plate of fruit. We were both really stuffed when we got through. They then insisted we take the leftovers home with us. Ugh!!!
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