Whoops, I can't believe I haven't posted for a month! It sure has been an eventful month! I'm going to have to fill in all the details eventually...
This weekend, we celebrated Halloween to the extreme. Angali, Anita, and I got Jane-Austen-style dresses tailored at Er qi square in Dalian (I always thought it was Archie square, named after a tailor or something, but it's actually just "27th square"). I can't wait to get a bunch of different clothes tailored there. I was just drooling when I walked in. There are literally hundreds of booths, each with a different tailor and different specialty, just waiting to take your order. The rows upon rows of fabric to choose from are any seamstress' dream come true. Now I just need to decide what might look nice. There's just way too many choices!
Anyways, our dresses turned out wonderfully and we bought gloves and masks to match. Anita convinced me to dress up for exam invigilating during the day so we could show our students. I got a lot of work done before the party and headed home where our hairdressers from Dalian were waiting to do our hair. Anita had taken them on a short bike ride and they were both exhausted, but they still managed to curl all our hair with only one curling iron in an hour. We went out for dinner with them at a Korean restaurant and enjoyed a night out on the town at the Silk Road Bar afterwards. We definitely turned some heads walking down the streets of Kai Fa Qu on the way there (especially the guys in their dresses!)
Yesterday I went to another Halloween party near LvShun with the guys we met in Beijing. We were all exhausted from report cards and partying, but we still had a great time. We were even greater celebrities there. The party was mostly for the Chinese university students and they made a crowd around us when we came in. Everyone's cameras started flashing and I was asked to be in so many photos that I felt like I was being chased by paparazzi. We had a great time - we got the shy Chinese students on the dance floor and were entertained by an amazing magician. The best part was hearing the shop owners blare French pop music as we walked down the street.
Right now I should be writing report cards, so I'll have to save all the other interesting updates for later...