Knobcottage in China

Well I heard there was a commotion in the park, so I went to visit.  It was a food festival.  Like all fod festivals, the food was good but overpriced!  It brought even more people than the opening of the new supermarket as not much happens in Jiangkou!  A lot of people came and a lot of people wanted photos with the foreigner!  The plus side is that a lot of people also bought me food!  Ill not say mcuh more but here are a few photos and videos! bbq stall.  The guy in red dressed as the monkey king SunWu Kong.  He danced the bbq from dawn to dusk!  #respect Ice cream that didn't taste of soya beans. Add caption side view duck Not really sure..think they were eggs! crabs

On Thursdays, my lessons are spread throughout the day.  I have one lesson at 7:45 a.m. and my next lesson is at 15:20.  Normally I go home and work and or sleep.  Today, I felt a little restless and  I decided to go for a walk.  It ended up as a long walk, maybe two hours.  It was quite a busy day so I've split it into three parts which are not necessarily chronological. Chronologically the day went: free breakfast, the Police roadblock, new friends and drugs education in China.  However I've split off the Police roadblock and drugs education in China into separate posts.  Now back to today!  As I said I was feeling restless so instead of going home for six hours I decided to go for a walk.  As I was rounding the corner to walk along the main street, I noticed one of the ladies from the park.  She was with a friend.  We smiled and waved.  I recognised her friend.  He was one of the Dragon 'kite' flyers from the park...

Last night I got home late after all the tea drinking.  Just as I was about to go to bed I got a message from Jessie, a Chinese girl in Liverpool.  She is forever seeking relationship advice and we have some really good chats, though why she seeks that sort of advice from me, I'm not quite sure as I've not had many!  However, being English,  I do have 'insider knoweldge'.  Anyway we chatted for about an hour and I started to fall asleep.  So we finished the conversation.  Apparently she is coming back to China in September and does not want to because she thinks she will loose all the freedoms she has in the UK.  Maybe we will meet. We are both up for the idea, but her home is Beijing, and its unlikely we will. So I got up a bit later than usual and didn't eat breakfast straight away.  There was a message on my phone from Sherrie.  She said that she was walking down by the river and it was nice and cool.  I asked her if she had ha...