Marijuana and some walls...

We've been in class all week learning all there is to know about China's culture, history, music, writing, minorities, religions, etc... I know so much more about China now that I shouldn't have a problem teaching about her anymore (which is a good thing b.c. that was the purpose of me coming)

We took a trip to see the city wall the other day. It's the longest city wall in the world which is Nanjing's small claim to fame. It was miniscule in comparison to what the Great Wall will be like, but it was still neat to be able to see the city skyline and all. Also there was a Buddhist temple right next to the wall and we toured around that-- we felt like intruders b.c. it was prayer time and about 50 or so Buddhist nuns were singing and chanting and praying-- which is actually an extremely reverent time for them so it was neat to see them in action. (Naturally we had some rude, socially awkward individuals in our group that were loud and taking pictures of them and being disrepectful-- but you always have a few of those in every group)

Everyone's been getting sick with all this Chinese food every day- day in, day out... so we've stopped the change in diet and started finding some sort of Western cuisine to nourish our palates. One night we went to Papa John's where it was sit down, with fancy plates and silverware and all... I had to take a picture of the delivery guy's ride:

Most nights we've been frequenting the local Mexican restaurant "Behind the Wall" and getting quite sloshed. (Well as sloshed as you can get on the weak Chinese beer! lol... but we have pitchers, and pitchers, and pitchers brought to our table. By last night they knew us so well that we got the special seat next to the AC!! Woohoo!!

Now it's a habitual thing that every time we order our food someone's never comes. Of course that person has been me most times-- I dunno why though.. lol. We've realized that the workers' habitual pot smoking must be getting to their minds b.c when we finally ask about the missing food (which is usually when everyone else is done) it's like they have no clue what we are talking about!! It's quite humorous to watch the servers sway back and forth while staring at the wall during their "downtime" even though they've forgotten all these things. We had one girl take a picture of our group and she couldn't stay still-- she kept swaying back and forth with the camera and couldn't focus on us at all! lol. So we don't know what the marijuana rules are here in China but it's blatantly obvious that this restaurant is the place to work if you want some all day and all night! lol.
I'm sad that today is the last day here but at least there's a really good group of people going to
Beijing tomorrow... whew, am I relieved that we get along!