Party time...

Dear friends,

Nothing much new in the East, except that Lee and I were dragged out deep into the nightlife of Guilin, since it was the birthday of a friend of ours. It is almost surreal watching the Chinese partying, playing dices, eating pieces of watermelon and drinking beer out of shot glasses. Conversation does not appear to on the menu. Also, the music was quite bad. As you can imagine, "We are not amused", and left rather early. If we had been single, on the other hand, it might have turned into a great night...

Talking of a great night, we recently found Belgian beer here, and had a glass each, which made us miss good old Belgium!

We did not actually witness this story, but it comes from a good source... A friend was out in a Chinese club one night, and one of the party goers had drunk too much. He started to vomit on the table. The normal reaction would be take him home, but his friends would just clean up the sick after each time he pucked up. Apparently, this went on for quite a while.. which seems to be common practice!