Congratulations! You Survived Two Whole Weeks!

Friday afternoon, after the last class of the second week, the program took everyone out for lunch, teachers included. We went to a restaurant across the street from campus with really good food, and boy did we eat.

I've been to that restaurant a few times before, mostly because the menu has pictures, which makes it a lot easier to actually know what you're ordering before it arrives. In fact, I've been there enough that our usual waitress knows me. She actually waived today when we came in.

So we all went upstairs to one of the private rooms, and they had four tables (10 chairs each) set up for us, which we didn't quite fill, but it was close. And then they brought the food. And when we were done eating, they brought more food. And then they did it again. And then they brought dessert, and then more food. My table ended up with fifteen dishes for eight people. It was ridiculous (but sooo gooood). We had, let's see... rice, sweet and sour pork, pork with green pepper, sliced beef thing (tasted like salami), fried eggplant sticks in sweet and spicy sauce, garlic broccoli, kung pao chicken (yes, they actually have that in China), tofu-shrimp-veggi thing, spinach, fried rice, fried pumpkin sticks, spicy green beans, spicy potato shreds, honey potatoes, and fried bread with custard. And we brought back the leftovers. Of course, there wasn't actually that much to bring back. Seriously. And we went all together, so we didn't have to pay for any of it. Best. Lunch. Ever.