TV-series

1. Heroes every Monday, started last week.
2. South Park every Wednesday, starting next week.
3. Robot Chicken every Sunday, been going on for a while
4. Family Guy every Sunday, started last week.
5. American Dad every Sunday, starting today.
6. Entourage, when will season 5 start?
7. The Pickup Artist, season 1 just ended.
   
8. Lost in season 4 in February
9. Should I start watching Prison Break?
10. Should I start watching The 4400
11. Rumor has it that Futurama will start again soon.
    

It seems a lot of series has moved from Fox to Adult Swim (Cartoon Network's night shows), American Dad and Family Guy has moved, and Robot Chicken has always been there and Futurama has moved there too, I thought they would move to Comedy Central but that was apparently wrong, either way I think this is a good thing since Fox seems to have their own agenda about everything.

At least with the first four I have a lot to watch now, perhaps too much, and with the two that I'm considering it should be plentiful.

Update

Just wrote 4 posts:

Another weekend
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Daily life and
Mid-autumn festival

I haven't had time to write very often recently so this is pretty much what has happened since last I Thursday.

Mid-autumn festival

I will post the photos later.

I met Jane by the river on Tuesday night to watch the moon, have mooncake and put lanterns in the river, that's pretty much it actually, the moon was clouded though but I got to watch it and managed to take some weird pictures of it when I was waiting for Jane. We walked around for quite a while, just walking through the crowds and taking pictures and stuff, finally we bought two lanterns and I got to put them in the water and make a wish for each. A quite good night.

Daily life

I've been hanging out with Jane almost every day this week, I think I met her just about everyday except Wednesday. I was supposed to meet Bella one Wednesday too but she has been sick so we couldn't meet. On Thursday I had the afternoon off and spent it with Jane since she had the afternoon off too, at night I met Erin, a girl that had come up to talk to me last Saturday when I was waiting for Luna; Erin is a bit younger, 22 I think, and studying English at Sichuan university, she just wanted to meet someone to speak English to so she came up to me and talked, we had pizza at a small place close to where we had met, next door to the Indian place where I had had dinner with Luna, and I got to teach her to use knife and for, her first time ever, and just have some simple conversation in English, it almost felt like I was tutoring her and I should have charged her for it.

Last night me and Aaron went out drinking, I met up with him at Paname after my dinner with work and Jane was with us too in the beginning, we mostly drank beer and played pool and at around 3am we left for a Chinese bar instead. There we met this weird guy, spoiled kid (old kid), that we hung out with for a while and then left, I spent too much Money yesterday, in total about 300kuai despite the free dinner. I think Kelly will have a party of some sort next weekend so I will probably join that. And the taxi ride home was my first with a female driver, I guess that was surprising because it was surprising, but aren't all taxi drivers men?

As for fasters question: Daily life and chores, well work takes up a lot more time than I had expected, even though I should only have around 15-20 teaching hours per week, which is basically around 10 working hours, I'm still away from home 8-12 hours per day, all because the commuting time when we are working outside Chengdu and the 4 hour lunch brakes we have and are stuck there. Because of this I have hardly had any time to do housework, I try to have breakfast at home every day but I haven't really gotten used to anything special and it's hard to find something good to eat for breakfast, the bread pretty much sucks, there is only one kind of bread to be found in normal stores and that is a super sweet, white and super soft thing that isn't very good and probably not healthy at all. I have only cooked at home once, the pancake dinner with Lily at her birthday but I intend to do that more often now, I have enough money now to buy a rice-cooker and a stove thing now, so I will try to make my own bread and try to cook simple food at home. And between working and hanging out with friend I haven't had time to clean my place at all this week, which is what I'm supposed to do right now but I'm a bit hangover and too lazy at the moment.

I have been trying to work out a little at home too, just doing sit-ups and push-ups daily and trying to increase, doing about 140 sit-ups and 30-40 push-ups a day now, and I'm losing weight, I'm still over 95kg I think but I'm much slimmer than before.

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Just a brief summary of what has happened since I wrote last:

Friday last week was a full day outside Chengdu again, started of being too tired from the very beginning it became a virtually horrible day. For some reason the schools here have about 4 hours lunch break, which doesn't make much sense to me, at least not in primary school, the kindergartens I can understand since they have nap time and stuff after lunch, at least this gave me a chance to nap too. The total amount of teaching hours that week ended up at 24, out of the 15-20 that my contract states.

This week was a lot worse, started on Monday when we had another full day outside Chengdu and teaching primary school and at lunch my boss told me I had evening classes too, some kindergarten in Chengdu and only two classes but still, she could have mentioned that a little bit earlier, she promised me Wednesday afternoon off as compensation but that was changed before long. The whole week was very tiring, in total I worked 28 teaching hours, again out of the 15-20 that my contract states. My boss says she is trying to find more part time teachers though so it should be better later, and now I have 9 whole days off so time to relax.

An interesting, really interesting, thing that happened this week was on Tuesday when I had kindergarten classes outside Chengdu; a small boy came up to me and tried to talk, which is not unusual so I basically ignored it, but it turned out he was speaking in Swedish to me, apparently his dad is Swedish, I guess him mom must be Chinese since he didn't look at all Swedish, I think that was pretty cool. I think Tuesday was the most relaxed day this week, during the 4 hour lunch break we went to have our feet washed and massaged, kind of weird but it was rather enjoyable.

And yesterday I finally got my salary; my boss had managed to convince the company boss that we have worked so hard that we deserved the full month salary, since we haven't really worked all days this month, and with the evaluation 74 out of 100, which I think is rather good for the first month, but we didn't get any detalied eveluation and I don't know what Gosha got so I'm not sure, I got 5011kuai, minus the deposit of 1000kuai I got 4011kuai in my hand, I need to open a bank account now, will try to do that tomorrow or at least some day next week. At night we had a dinner together with my boss and my coworker, Jane came with me too and Gosha's boyfriend and another Polish guy that is her friend and has worked at our company before. I didn't know that our company would pay for the dinner so I'm quite embarrassed to say I ate for two or three people, which got rather expensive, around 100kuai for me alone; I had a big fajita with chicken and stuff and me and Jane shared a nine layer dip for starter and I ended the dinner with a brownie ice cream thingy, and had a beer to the food too, it was really really good though.

Another weekend

On Thursday last week I went out to have BBQ with Aaron, Amanda and Kelly, the three American Volunteers that I've met, that was really good but I was extremely tired. BBQ is something you can have pretty much anywhere here at night, they have like these small grills just about everywhere and you just chose whatever you want to put on it and after a few minutes you get it back on a tray, it's quite cheap too, I had a lot and it was still only 17kuai. I learnt a new version of the big two, neger or king and slave card game too, it's called five-ten-king (I think) and you can only play it with three people where two play against one that gets some extra cards, rather fun.

On Saturday I was supposed to go to IKEA with Luna, but with communication problems it wasn't that easy and I finally gave up, we still met for dinner anyway and I had the spiciest food I've had here so far, an Indian restaurant and we both had curry dishes, min was really spicy but not even close to Luna's, her was well SPICY. After the dinner we met up with Bella at the Hemp House and I stayed there until around 4am or something, it was actually quite dull but I didn't feel like going home.

Americans, bikes, a bug and loads of children!

Another week is almost done and this one was tougher.

Monday I did a whole day outside Chengdu for the first time and working with two guys, an older American guy that made a lot of noise and a French-Canadian guy that didn't make much noise at all. The American guy, Rick, is quite cool actually, I kind of like him despite his overly American way; he is a bit over 40 and has amazingly been to over 80 coteries, among which all European countries is included, he can also "speak" 12 languages and know phrases in a dozen others, for example he knows how to say I don't speak Swedish/Danish in Swedish and Danish "Jag talar inteSvenska", "Jag snackar icke Dansk" (or something like that). Teaching mostly 1st grade (one 2nd grade in the morning only) I managed to get a quite good pace in my class and at the end of the day Betty, my assistant, told me that the school had said I was the best among the three of us. Guess how much that boosted my confidence, I have only been teaching for 2 weeks and the others have been teaching for at least a few months and several years respectively.

Good turned to bad when I came back to the office, on the way back Betty told me that I should put my bike in the guarded place instead of outside where I have put it so far, I guess she could have told me about that sooner because when we came back my bike had already left in some mysterious way, I was sad. Had a comfort dinner with Jane instead and was rather happy after that; I think that must have been the most comfortable restaurant I've ever been to, big sofas instead of chairs and in some way they have managed to make it easy to sit by the table and eat in them.

Tuesday morning was primary school again, and 1st grade again, so I just did the exact same thing I had done Monday and I actually hardly remember any of it. In the afternoon I had kindergarten again and I had kind of forgotten my system so the lessons really sucked, new words too. After I was done Betty went with me to buy a new bike, and I bought an exact same as I had before. At night I met Jane for dinner again, it got very late which was not too good for her as she had classes in the morning, she is working at Sichuan Normal University, I've figured out that the Normal Universities ire like Lärar Högskolan (teachers collage) in Sweden. Jane made steamed dumplings for me, well not as much made as just steamed them but it was nice either way.

Wednesday was morning off so I slept in, afternoon it was a new kindergarten, I think a richer kindergarten so the kids get more to eat and are therefore both bigger and louder. Not very fun, but luckily I figured out that if I manage to convince them that it's better to have classes outdoors it will be ok. I met Bella for dinner and she tried to help me with some tickets but we finally figured out that I could have done it myself, we had the dinner at the same place that I had had with Jane last Friday and I think I really like that place; I think all places have approximately the same dishes, but they are still really bad at many places, this place is great though.

This morning, Thursday, I had primary school again and in the first class I had I lost my voice in every other sentence, I still managed though. On the way to the pickup place at the office I manged to do a full frontal with a tiny bug, straight in my eye, it took me five minutes to even open my eyes again and that got me five minutes late, it still hurts too actually. I had two 1st grade classes and one 4th grade, all went quite well I think, a little bit off in timing on the 4th grade class but I had prepared for that so it was ok. In the afternoon I had two classes at the same kindergarten as yesterday, but this time the oldest and loudest students, it was ok anyway, my voice was better than this morning and my preparation was much better, just did the same class as I had done last week, since it was the first time.

I figured out a lot of things of how to handle the students better these two weeks and I think I will manage even better in time, but right now I think I need some fisherman's friend, damn but I have to scream a lot!

Office just called and informed me that I have three kindergarten classes in the morning and three kindergarten classes in the afternoon tomorrow, and as usual they have no idea of which age, everything in the last second, damn the are disorganized.

How to celebrate a birthday in China

Of course I just had to do it at Pizza Hut again, it has more or less become a tradition to eat at Pizza Hut when I have birthday in China. So I asked some friends to Join me, first Bella that I met with for hotpot this Wednesday, and she brought her friend Luna too, then Aaron, an American guy that works in the peace corps and I have befriended, and he brought Amanda who is a quite newly arrived co-worker of his and finally Jane, another friend of Aaron, I think his Chinese teacher actually, that I was out with this Friday. They brought some gifts, or promises of gifts, which was really unnecessary but still very appreciated. Bella and I discovered that we had accidentally, maybe, got the VIP ticket instead of the normal ticket, which meant VIP area access and 150 kuai worth of drinks. Lucky Lucky! (or so we thought)

The Food was great, well great might be a strong word but when the craving for pizza is in then it is great; we had pizza of course but first a tiny pasta dish with curry sauce and garlic bread and we ended everything with two pieces of cake for birthday cake. After that I went home to leave my camera, I just didn't want to bring it to the party. I picked up a bag of bilar as well, but we totally forgot about that and I think it is still in Bella's bag. Picture from left to right: Jane, Johan, Bella, Luna, Amanda and Aaron.

We took two taxis to the Hemp House to get on the free shuttle bus that would go from there and that's when our trouble started; the free shuttle bus was more a minibus and there were too many people waiting, so we decided to go there by ourselves instead, with two guys joining we were two full taxis now, but we didn't know much more than the name of the place and the taxi drivers hardly had any idea of where that was, except perhaps the general direction. So at some point we, that is my taxi, decided that we might have better luck finding it by foot, and I guess paying a taxi driver to drive around in blind wasn't much of an attractive thought, so we started walking around, up and down a long street first and then just by chance we ran into the group from the other taxi again. With our newly gathered forces we started asking local people of where it was and after about 30-45 minutes of walking around we finally found the place.

And it was not really what I had expected, the warehouse was just a outdoor area framed by big transport containers on all sides and just a small opening. The VIP stamp caused some confusion, I think they actually didn't sell any VIP ticket so they just sold them as normal, but in the end we managed to get 5 free beers each, which got Bella quite wasted after just a short time. When we arrived the place was really crowded, and most people there where Chinese but as time passed that began to shift, more and more westerners arrived and the Chinese dropped of one by one it seemed, I guess they were just tired and needed to go home and sleep, at 11pm? We ourselves left quite early, Bella realised that she was too drunk and left around 2am and Jane was getting tired and neither Aaron or Amanda liked the music or the dancing so we decided to leave, leaving Luna alone actually but she seemed to have to much fun anyway, I think she really did, I talked to her today and she had apparently joined an after-party at one of the DJ's place.

I'm twentysix

First week

My first week as a teacher is over now and it has really been hectic, luckily I was free all Monday due to teachers' day but it has still been quite overwhelming. Monday I spent most of the day resting, cleaning and doing laundry, and had dinner with my friend, which I told about in my last post.

It was on Tuesday everything started, quiet unnerving as I was supposed to have 3 primary school classes in the morning, and the primary school is really had as I have no real idea of what to do, but those were cancelled so I had gotten up early and biked to the office for nothing. In the afternoon I had 3 kindergarten classes though, which was tough enough, but after the first two classes I kind of got the hang of it and the list of teaching points, new words and a sentence each week, made it quite easy; someone had just forgotten to give us that before.

With more confidence I got up early once again on Wednesday to be driven outside of Chengdu for some more kindergarten classes, this time I knew more of what to expect and how to behave and how long each part of the class would take. I had one class in the afternoon too and I think the children were as tired as me, afternoon classes are harder than morning I think, there is just no energy left in anybody. At night I went out for hotpot dinner with a newly made friend.

Again an early morning but this time for a primary school and with no preparation or even a hint of what we were supposed to do it was the worst organization so far, I didn't even find out that it would be 5th graders that I would teach until we were on the way there. The first class I had sucked pretty bad actually, especially in the beginning, I got the hang of it after a while though and I used my experiences from the first class to do the second better. I didn't have a third class so I looked in on one of the other foreign teacher to get some hints. No classes in the afternoon and at night I met a friend, actually a flirt from a Jack 'n Jones store where she works, and we had once again hotpot, but this time a buffet which was rather interesting.

Today was a little later morning, didn't start until 9am, but still too early for me to be happy, at least there is no afternoon class today. I had 4 classes in kindergarten this morning and I entered with some false confidence; the first class went rather well I think, a little bit older kids, 5 years old, and a quite small class, older mean more lively though and at times we had to stop for a while to take control, for every class it became worse though, maybe because I was really tired, but the kids just started scream and running around sometimes, damn it's hard to control. Well I did survive at least, even though I'm exhausted after 4 classes, I'll probably try to rest up and clean my apartment, it's rather dusty in some places now, and tonight I'm meeting yet another friend, this time not for hotpot.

I've have started to do sit-ups and push-ups every day, at least tried, I've been feeling a bit sick the last few days and had really big problems sleeping for 2-3 nights, it's a bit better now, maybe because the weather turned better today, I think I'm losing weight, despite all the McDonald's and KFC, I'll join a gym that is close to here later, when I have money, I already checked it out, quite neat, close and not crowded if you go on the right time. I hope it will be better for next week because I have classes both in the morning and afternoon every single day, and I can't afford to be sick. And tomorrow is no time for rest, I will meet some friends for dinner at Pizza Hut to celebrate my birthday, if anyone forgot it it is tomorrow, and then go to this big warehouse party, probably some techno club thing with lots of DJ names on the posters, but it's supposed to be big so I'm going.

Chinese dinner

Hui Guo Rou 回锅肉
Tu Dou Si 土豆丝
Gong Bao Ji Ding 宫保鸡丁 (Kong Pao Chicken)
Fun Qie Dau Twon

I didn't manage to write the last one in Chinese, but that's what I had today anyway. I saw a friend that I met last week today and she brought another friend too, she herself can only speak very little English and her friend hardly any, so it was a bit of a challenge but it turned out quite well anyway. She helped me to buy a bike, so right now I have a bike that's helping me to crowd my apartment, only 300 kuai so it was very affordable. We had the dinner at a tourist spot not far from here, it's a nice area made in traditional Chinese style and the food we had was actually great, after dinner my friend bought me some Chinese cookies but I accidentally left them in a market stand where I bought one of those tricky puzzles (I think it's called a blacksmiths puzzle actually), they had loads and some where really hard so I bought one.

A long weekend and the leavers

I decided already in the afternoon that I wanted to check out how a bar was like on a Thursday but I had a little detour; an online friend that I met for dinner at an American Tex-Mex restaurant that had a really nice setting but I was a bit disappointed at the burger I got, it's my fault though for forgetting to have it with cheese. She tagged along to Paname too, the French bar again, after the dinner but she wasn't that funny to have around in the bar though, she was too tired and a really low energy level, she still stayed until after midnight anyway. I learnt a Chinese strategy game, much like Chess actually, from a French-Asian professor, doing research in mathematics at Sichuan univ, it's a quite cool game and I'd like to learn it better, and that guy is quite good at it.

More people where coming in quite late and between 2am and 4am it was really quite crowded. I talked to some newly arrived Danish guys, of where at least one held the same affection for Southpark as I do, and played pool with random people. I think I ended up going home at around 4.30 in the morning.

Friday was a long day of sleeping, slightly hangover from the night before I didn't even go outside for eating until after 7pm, and after a quick dinner at KFC and a walk to a shopping mall about 10 minutes off where I bought a new belt, I forgot to bring one actually and my jeans are nearly (not nearly - really) falling off now. I started my night at a bar called The Bookworm, a British place, quite big and with bookshelves everywhere, so it's nearly a library really, the setting is really nice but this night they celebrated their one year anniversary, so it was a bit crowded and had live bands playing all the time, not really in sync with the atmosphere of the place, and for an entrance fee of 100 yuan there was on open bar and a food buffet, which I hardly touched since I had just eaten. The live bands where quite good, even though the loud music prevented most conversation, I spent most of the time there chatting with an elderly chap, yes chap and very British, and two Chinese girls, also a bit older but I still guess around half his age, that where his students.

Lily started calling me to join her for Aaron's, her ex, birthday gathering at a bar not far from there, it took like 5 minutes to walk there but I still took a taxi. There I met for the first time a few of Lily's friends; it was Aaron (Lily's ex), Jane (I think Aaron's teacher and apparently not Lily's friend at all), another girl that I never really figured out who she was friends with (I guess everybody) and some more. Then there was another group of people that were Lily's friends but not in the birthday group, among which Sam, the guy who got me my job here and that I will be working with from time to time and who turns out to be Lily's new boyfriend, which she had just forgotten to mention to just about anyone before. Aaron left quite soon, for obvious reasons, with both Jane and the other girl and after chatting with some random people that hardly spoke any, if even that, English I decided to walk back to the open bar at The Bookworm.

The open bar wasn't free anymore though, they had only had that deal until midnight, and most people were leaving anyway so I only stayed for a beer than called Aaron to join him at some club called seven club. I was actually surprised to find Jane there, yes I said she went with Aaron but she had told me she was going home, and when I saw her at seven club she was actually going home. Me and Aaron stayed though, for quite a while, I think I didn't get home until around seven or eight in the morning, during that time we had managed to get a lot of free drinks and made some new friends, that at least I could hardly talk to. I met the Italian group again too, and made plans to meet up the day after, since we all had plan to go to the same place.

Saturday was again a day of staying in bed most of the day, I had my breakfast at home so I didn't leave until after 9pm, had my dinner at the Japanese noodles restaurant close to here and finally arrived at the Hemp House at around eleven. I found Lily and her friends there and hung out with them for a while, and then Aaron showed up too so I hung out with him and his coworker, an American girl named Kathy, quite funny girl really. I met the Italian crowd again of course, and Gosha, my own coworker, and many other people I had met before and some that I hadn't met before. When the crowds started to thin up and I was close to leaving I started talking to a girl that I ended up playing pool with until around 6am when I finally got home, she had an unhappy and too drunk friend to take care of too.

Sunday was once again a day of staying in, but only half day this time, and after three all nighters of drinking I was pretty exhausted and hangover. I had my breakfast at McDonald's at around 5pm this time, and after a quick stop at the Carrefour supermarket I went to meet up with Nicky again, the same girl I had had dinner with on Thursday. We went to see a movie but the movie she had wanted to see, Transformers, didn't show anymore, we ended up watching Secret instead, a Taiwanese movie about a music student meeting a strange girl under strange circumstances, a love story with a twist really, and it was really quite nice, and sad. Too tired to do anything else we parted after the movie and I went home. The area where we met is the shopping area of Chengdu so I know now where to go when I get my money.

Long weekend and now a long week will start, or actually short since I'm off today. But I have 6 classes tomorrow and I will finally get my schedule for the whole week and hopefully next week too.

First class

Today was finally the day, my first class as a teacher. I was picked up outside my building at around 8am, about 10 minutes late actually, and after about a 2 hour drive, which should have taken about 1½ at the most but we got lost in the other city, we arrived in the school; a nice little primary school, well maybe not so little, I guess they must have had around 4-5 hundred students divided among 6 grades and two or three classes per grade.

Of course there was a lot of confusion, the first class I should have had, a 1st grade class, had already been, it was simply too early for us to get there in time for that, so my first class was instead a 4th grade class. I had made a simple lesson plan but i realised quite soon that it was not long and enough and it was not really the right level, I still don't know what level it should be, and I think the class went quite bad.

After that me and Gosha had one class off, because of the class we should have had earlier, and during that time I tried to re-evaluate the lesson plan for the 1st graders I would have after. It turned out that they still wanted me to have both the 1st grade classes for half a class each, so the lesson plan I had would work out ok, and it did. Quite a lot more successful than the class I had first, the kids were really quite adorable and at the end of the second half every single kid waned to high five me; in the beginning they had seemed scared to look at me even.

Training

I have had a little kindergarten teaching training now the last two days, it really hasn't been much, just about one to two hours of instructions yesterday afternoon and both me and the other teacher, a Polish girl that is also new her, did a short demo class each this morning with some comments after. Tomorrow we will have a class on how to discipline and on Thursday we will both teach 3 classes in a primary school. Work starts next week and even though the training seems sufficient I'm still a bit nervous.

Lily's birthday

Yesterday was Lily's birthday and I offered to cooker her pancakes for her birthday dinner. So I finally pulled myself together and went, with her help of course, and bought a portable stove. Just buying it was trouble enough, there are like 20 different types ranging in price from 200yuan to almost 1000yuan, I wanted a cheap one though, not much point in spending lots of money on maybe quality for just half a year, or even a year. So I got one for 225 that included a pan and a pot, and since i thought the pan was too deep like a wok pan, it was a quite cool pan actually, standard Chinese stuff I guess, so I bought another lower and a bit flatter pan, that was actually quite troublesome too since the stove is an induction stove and only works with some materials. The timing was the worst ever too, at 7.30pm everybody goes to the supermarket, and it's not easy to walk around there with a large wagon trying to find ingredients for pancakes, even though it's not much.

Shopping took quite a while but we finally got home and once there we started trying to cook, it's always trying when using new equipment and this was more new to me than anything I've tried before; In Sweden I've always used normal heated stoves and when I did it in Hong Kong I used gas heated which works quite well really. With this new induction stuff I had a totally new challenge to face and I soon realised that the second pan I had bought was not really suitable for induction, and not good for making pancakes, I didn't discover this until I had melted my new plastic spatula that I had bought in IKEA, I bought a new stainless one in Carrefour today. Nearly giving up totally we still made a last try with other pan and a now half melted spatula. It went quite well after some tries and I think next time will be even better, I think I still need another pan for it though.

Chengdu

Alone in Chengdu

Western guys, Chinese girls, playing pool, drinking beer, random conversations, making friends, switching bars, English, Italian, Australian, German, American and people for everywhere, except Sweden of course. Hot dancers, Chiva's regal -ice tea, dice games, rapport without talking and other so amazing things.

The night was rather crazy, I went out with no expectations at all and even thought that I would have a beer and then leave. But once there I forced myself to communicate with people, it's small bar called Paname that is owned by a big French guy; there were not many people there in the beginning, it was rather early actually, but I started talking to a black guy from England who seemed a bit too tired, I was jet lagged, but was still friendly and helpful to me. I talked to most other people there, since there weren't that many at the time, and played pool with some other English guy. I went with an American couple to another bar about a hundred meters away; a new place that had a more laid-back not-so-noisy feeling to it called the leg and the whistle. I only stayed there for a short time though and when I came back to Paname it was way more crowded and almost like a tiny club that was a bit too crowded, I mostly stayed outside after that.

My English black friend was about to leave but found a girl that he liked so he stayed and once he had gotten drunk enough he wanted to stay out all night despite losing the girl. So he managed to engage three Italian guys that I didn't like too much and a girl came with them; I think one of the guys thought of the girl as his girlfriend but she didn't seem much into him, rather rejecting actually. I guess the club was like all the Chinese clubs, same as the one in Beijing at least. We bought a bottle of Chiva's Regal of which I got to pay almost everything due to the disappearance of two of the Italians, and of course ice tea. We didn't drink much of it though, I have nearly half the bottle here, instead we just walked around, mostly one and one and engaged other groups of people, I played the dice game I learnt in Beijing with a drunk Chinese girl with some problem coming from different way of signing numbers with your hand.

I finally lost all the others, I guess they just left, so I took a taxi back home and realised that I had managed to get a bit too drunk.