It's a Party!

This post is a bit of a backtrack... On Friday the 17th, Bond (the company that runs the school I'll be teaching at) had their big annual New Year's party. Everyone who works for Bond was invited, including all of us girls.

The party was a lot of fun. It was at a big, fancy Chinese restaurant.

Bond employees did short performances throughout the night. Some did a short comedy play, some did a historic skit, and several did song & dance numbers. One group did a dance to 'What does the Fox Say?' (which I filmed- it took up a lot of memory though, which is why there aren't a ton of pictures...).

They kept bringing out a new food dish every ten minutes. There was so much food still left at the end! The many choices included chicken (with the head on the plate), a whole fish, shrimp (with eyes and legs), pigeon, oysters (they were yummy!), a spongey yellow pastry, and vegetables. There were also four different drink choices- soda, milk tea, normal tea, and red wine for the New Year's toast.

All of the food just went onto a big Lazy-Daisy in the middle of the table and you took what you wanted and put it onto your plate.

I couldn't quite get myself to eat one of these.
Might have if I'd had a knife instead of
just my fingers...

Can you find the head? It can see you!

The party also included a raffle to win money. Everyone got a ticket before the party and their number got put into the box to win. As the night went on the pulled fewer names and the amount to win got higher. Several people from our group won!

My raffle ticket! Sadly I didn't win anything :(

At the end of everything, they had everyone get into a big group picture on the stage. It was kind of confusing for a while because they wanted us in the back on chairs, and then said get off, and then wanted us back on the chairs... Eventually everything was arranged. I felt a little bad being in the picture when we'd only been in China for two days. And sadly I don't have a copy of this picture :(