Weekend out with “the others”

The International office had organized a weekend for the foreign teachers and students. Organization was splendid! Friday night we got a call asking what we were doing tomorrow and telling us to come to the university gate at 9.00 a.m. the next morning… no further information was given, so we played sheep (which seems to be a popular Chinese game) and just followed. Surprisingly, it turned out to be a lovely weekend, also thanks to the warm weather and nice company. For photos from that weekend please click the following flickr link.

The place was surreal and beautiful. It’s a big reservoir lake that they use to feed the Li River (“local Schelde”) that the tourist boats run on. This year has been very dry here, and the reservoir now looks more like a desert than a lake. But the walk around and the boat were both beautiful, as the pictures will hopefully show.