Dinner and a Show

As you can probably tell by the title I have allot to put up and only about 30 min to do it before my next class starts. So here we go !!!!

I was at dinner the other night with Alex (English hes 23 and is in all my classes ) Jake ( American he is 23 also but he is teaching English here at Yantai instead of learning Chinese pretty cool!!) Valentina ( Italian shes 21 and also in all my classes ) So we were at dinner it was a really cool little place on the roof of this 5 story building a little dirty but all good, we were having barbecued pork on these little metal skewers we had ordered about 60 of then but there was only about one mouth full of meat on each one it sounds like allot but it really wasn't then we had some grill squid and steamed buns really good they were fryed in the grease from all the meats, just when we had finished and were just hanging around talking there was all this yelling about two tables down from us ( so about 10 feet.......maybe ) and these two businessmen were had gotten up and had started to fight it only lasted about 3 minutes before they were pulled apart but in those 3 min one of the guys had managed to grab about twenty of these little skewers and had tried to stab the other man in the side now this was a little exciting so we were watching and then when one of the guys was carried off into the kitchen it gave us something to talk about so about 5 min later we hear so more yelling and then a scream and there was the guy who had been taken off to the kitchen running out with a butcher's cleaver pretty intent on hacking up the other guy he never quite made it though. 

So now some back ground on this story apparently the Yantai Mafia has quite a presents in the area so these too men who had been eating dinner here had been doing a little business deal  and one of them just happened to be part of the Yantai mafia I guess that the dinner hadn't been going so well and that was why there was a bit of a disagreement. A more popular way for the Mafia to dispatch of a person it with a good stabbing people don't usually keep arguing after you stab them. So the reason this guy hadn't made it to his target was these two massive China Men who I hadn't noticed before  ( who turned out to be bodyguards for the one man ) did a complete body slam onto the guy with a cleaver and that took care of that problem the guy was taken downstairs thrown in a car and they drove off all this happened at a restaurant next door to the police station. So we ordered some more drinks and then headed home. Still loving China I'm off to class. As always hello to the readers 

Catch up

China : Place of great food AMAZING PEOPLE and Fantastic Weather, and my new home for the next few months. It would defiantly be a place that i would recommend for students to go to for a study abroad programme. All his coming from someone who didn't Know any Chinese before he arrived. 

At least 5 times a day i have some very attractive girls ask for my number.

I go to lunch with about 10 or more people a day and they all asked me to go with them.

It is such an interesting place culturally historically and now in the modern age everywhere you look there is something new being planed out, built, designed or made.

Saying that you have to be prepared to also be alone some of the time and i mean alone.

almost 80% of the student population Knows or is learning English but you arnt always near them and it is a really odd feeling to be surrounded by people but know that know can understand you  its not that they are not nice its just that for most of the people up in till about 1985 they had never seen a white person or foreigner at all so you get stared at all the time most of they time tho as soon as you say something  a wide smile beaks across there face...............or they run away ( its happened ) its a sort of funny sight its like Godzilla.

Part 2 i went away from my computer to go play some basket ball my team had 

2 Japanese 

1 South Korean

1 Mongolian 

and me 1 American

against 

5 Chinese 

i was the only wight guy and it was a open court.......surrounded by people.......near one of the bigger cafeteria's on campus theres 8 each one is about 3-6 floors. INSANE. so all in all about 300 people watching. Hows that for popularity defiantly more then my high school basket ball team. To make a long story short we lost horrible you can really see why the Chinese won like all the gold medals during the Olympics they are always doing some kind of sport.

Well that's all for right now I'm sure ill be on later hello to everybody who is reading this and if you are a repeat reader please leave a comment with your first name i want to see how many there are  thanks

Matt Tatham or Ma xiu My Chinese name that i have sort of adopted because not many people ere can pronounce the th sound signing off 

world traveler extraordinary

Some Future Plans

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