#silverwalk

[youniquelyjennie]

Getting ready to waaaaaaaaalk!!!! Wooooooot!!!! Dr. Andy Gough took my picture for me!!! Part of our Executive team!!! Wooooohooooooo!!!!!! #silverwalk #doterraconvention #celebrations #justthebeginning #rightwhereibelong

[poriophrenia]

~Silverwalk~

Last night we all went to the Silverwalk for dinner, which is a really nice area of Ningbo with a mix of western and Chinese restaurants. It has all of these colourful lit-up buildings (the rainbow one in the pictures actually changes colour in a really fantastic way) and a beautiful little river running through it with bridges going over it. The architecture is also a strange but beautiful combination of Western and Eastern.

Several of the girls stopped when they saw a Chinese couple walking a cute dog, and started taking pictures with it. While they were taking pictures of the dog, the woman quickly got her camera out and started taking pictures of us! It was really strange.

Afterwards we headed to a new bar that a friend of mine found a ten minute walk from campus. It's a small place, but it's got a really good atmosphere and, unlike Laowaitan it isn't just full of foreigners. The bartender gave us all 10 kuai off every drink (this is what I have come to call the "white people discount") and we stayed until around 4AM before coming back and successfully waking up the whole dormitory with my drunken ukulele playing.

It's very strange to be treated so specially just because you look different than everyone else. At the bar we were sat outside playing Jenga, and a huge group of people gathered around to watch us as. Literally everything we do, no matter how normal, is strange to the Chinese. I wonder what they think of us, and if they are just so surprised that we do regular things because they expect us to be so different from them.