Hi guys.
The reason I am writing this now is because I am not able to sleep at the moment, too much excitement...so thought I would give you a little snippet of some of the things that happened to me on my first day.:dodgy:
Well as you know I have the hotel booked, the hotel looks quite nice all PINK/SALMON in colour on the outside (LOL) and is called J66 Motel, Changyilu. The room is very basic but nice and clean and surprise surprise, I have a western toilet:icon_cheesygrin:. Everything I need is there, television (Chinese:huh:), kettle, computer, leather couch and bed, hehe no woman yet, but give me time eh Willy :angel:
Well I walked about the place no going far and spoke to a few people, they were all very helpful in their own way, all I could do was laughwhen I realised they could not understand what I was trying to convey. MUST GET A TRANSLATOR MACHINE TODAY.
I kept asking people if they knew where a bar or pub was, finally it dawned on me to ask for a KTV place and I was promptly shown where THAT was... I don't drink but decided that I must try the Qingdao beer, so I drank 3 bottles and felt quite merry lol. It cost 8 yuan (80 pence) a bottle, and 29 Yuan (2.90 pence) for the room for an hour, where you play the music and sing or not. Anyway this lady came in and asked me what music I wanted to hear, I let her decide. However, I did ask her to play Wo ai ni :icon_biggrin: We got chatting I told her my name etc and my age 52, she told me she was 21, the waiter said he was 24 (we wrote these down) I scrubbed out HIS age and wrote 34 he walked out in a huff (but laughing) and she laughed her head off, so this was a good start. Maybe they cannot understand your language or you theirs, but with hand signals and expressions things are known between each other. This was the place I encountered Chinese toilets, although not used it for a dump yet...
It came to me that everytime I asked for somewhere, they always wanted me to get food!!! They thought I was asking for that, I made hand signals like drinking and gurgling and mentioned Qingdao beer, they seemed to click on
Tomorrow (or today) should be interesting haha.
Welcome rob, , I think Qing dao is very cold now ,isn't it ?
See, so many funny thing happen to you although you just arrive China. I wish you have a good time in China !
Chen Yan
Yes Chet it is cold but not as cold as the UK...lol
arnold,
yes I intend having a good time. The place will change me thats for sure...
Vince I never realised just how poverty stricken this country is, and I don't think you will do until you come her and see for yourself, but on saying that they seem happy and contented with their lot in life.
Ronan, hehe today is the day for dumplings and those you mentioned hehe
Blimey , next thing we will be reading is that Rob is turning Muslim so he can marry 4 pretty Chinese women haha , thumbs up from us , regards Ying and Robert .
Robert...ONLY 4....I wish lol:icon_cheesygrin:
Frank thanks for that mate, maybe who knows, it will be included in my book thats for sure...
Shaun MOI under the bed...YOU must be thinking of someone else hahahaha