What is China like?
Inspired by a post about 'truths about China' on Adam's blog, a few thoughts about China...
Chinese Parties are different...
In the UK many parties consist of leaving the house at 8pm to have a few drinks and a chat with your friends in the pub, then going onto a bar where you'll continue to have a few more drinks, maybe an alcohol-induced dance, then get chips (french fries) and cheese on the way home, getting to sleep at maybe 3am.
In Colombia, you might leave the house at 10pm (usually an hour or two later than you agreed), then go straight to a salsa or reggaton club, where you'll have a few drinks and happily dance in couples for most of the night and chat to your friends, again returning in the early hours of the morning.
However if you get invited to a Chinese-style party, expect something different. You leave earlier, at maybe 6pm you go for dinner with your friends, spending one or two hours chatting while sharing various dishes. Then you'll go home. By 9pm. Your night is over.
Alternatively, after dinner, maybe you'll be lucky enough to go to KTV, which is basically karioke in a small room that fits maybe 10 or 20 people, with people singing their little hearts out (awwww bless them).
Hmmm..... dinner and karioke...... that's different.
But I kinda love it :)
Chinese Parties are different...
In the UK many parties consist of leaving the house at 8pm to have a few drinks and a chat with your friends in the pub, then going onto a bar where you'll continue to have a few more drinks, maybe an alcohol-induced dance, then get chips (french fries) and cheese on the way home, getting to sleep at maybe 3am.
In Colombia, you might leave the house at 10pm (usually an hour or two later than you agreed), then go straight to a salsa or reggaton club, where you'll have a few drinks and happily dance in couples for most of the night and chat to your friends, again returning in the early hours of the morning.
However if you get invited to a Chinese-style party, expect something different. You leave earlier, at maybe 6pm you go for dinner with your friends, spending one or two hours chatting while sharing various dishes. Then you'll go home. By 9pm. Your night is over.
Alternatively, after dinner, maybe you'll be lucky enough to go to KTV, which is basically karioke in a small room that fits maybe 10 or 20 people, with people singing their little hearts out (awwww bless them).
Hmmm..... dinner and karioke...... that's different.
But I kinda love it :)