Pleasant Time With Friends

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My daily life in Qingdao changed radically on the first Monday after the end of Spring Festival (Chinese Lunar New Year).  That was when I met with my Chinese tutor Amanda and agreed that the heavy demands of her brand new job would not allow her to continue to teach me Chinese.  It was a sad agreement, because we had become friends through spending five hours a week together for two months plus the simple fact that we liked each other.

I spent several hours with Amanda and her husband this past Saturday.  The friendship was still there.  We started by meeting at Qingdao's largest bookstore to find a book for a young lady at my accountant's office who wants to learn English accounting terms.

Then we went to lunch and enjoyed dumplings.  When my wife Karen comes here in May, we're going to go to their house for a dumpling-making lesson.  I'm not certain who's the better cook--Amanda or her husband--but that doesn't really matter because they both seem to enjoy cooking and the food has always been delicious when I've eaten there. After lunch, I mentioned that I would like to walk around the Olympics campus because I hadn't done that yet.  So off we set.

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