For the international students on campus a party was organized to get more familiar with the Chinese culture and afterwards we spend the afternoon in the national park.

In the morning there was a sort of party for us as international student and for Chinese students who went abroad. The idea was they're familiarizing us with the Chinese culture, even though we're already here for quite some time. So we played some games, learned how to make Chinese knots and were painting masks. Meanwhile there were several performances of people who were playing a traditional Chinese instrument or were dancing. It was fun and everyone was again interested in everything about us. Especially after the event, people came to us and wanted to take so many pictures and asking questions all the time. So today again we felt like celebrities, I thought that we'd passed that phase already.

After the even we went to the national park where I was walking around a few days ago. This time we actually went into the park. It was huge and we didn't even see everything in the four hours that we've been there. So we should be going back some day, but actually quite soon because Rulis is leaving is less than two weeks and he still wants to see the rest of the park. He's been here for about six months but hasn't seen this place yet.

During dinner today we had an interesting experience again. This time it was okay to order food, we got three waitresses to help and together they were able to speak some English. And with the help of the cook, we eventually had ordered food. Of course ordering beer was not a problem, we all know the Chinese words and characters for beer. In the restaurant where we were I saw a rather unusual sign, it said "no fart" with an image which supports the text. I am not sure, but I guess there's a reason why they're having this sign there. I wouldn't be surprised if this is based on previous experience, that's more or less how Chinese people are. They're not as clean and don't have the same etiquette as European people, which is sometime a small, sometimes a bigger difference.