Guillaume's birthday
Today was Guillaume's 22nd birthday. We celebrated the end of his 22nd year and the beginning of his 23rd year of life.
Everything went well, from breakfast in bed (croissants and pains au chocolat - chocolate-stuffed croissants) to kareeokee (called KTV in China) and clubbing at night.
We went for a two-hour massage this afternoon. Full body. Fully clothed. Kinda weird, at times it even hurt, but all in all, a good experience, and so cheap that maybe we'll do it every week.
Five of us went, but Loic chickened out when he saw the place. He was a little scared of what they were going to do to him. So we ended up being all four in the same room, that way the masseuses could talk to each other and we could talk to each other. Pretty funny.
We ate our French-style dinner. It was pretty delicious considering the difficulties we had in making it. We started peeling the potatoes at 6 o'clock and we finished cooking around 9 o'clock. It's hard to cook when you have so little equipment - cooking everything in one pan is not ideal.
We had a rice/tuna/cherry tomatoes/hard-boiled egg salad to start, but the rice was sticky, of course (being Chinese and all) and a bit burnt, and the vinaigrette (sauce) was pretty bad because the mustard and vinegar we found in the local supermarket definitely does NOT have the same taste as it does at home... But by 9 o'clock we were starving and anything and everything tasted good.
We ate day-old baguette and a fried potato-and-cheese dish Katia knows how to make. It looked like mush but it tasted wonderful.
We finished off with real French cheese that cost us a small fortune at the Carrefour (French supermarket) yesterday. Around $10 a piece, and we got three different kinds.
We were four at the massage place, seven for dinner (the seventh didn't eat and hadn't formally been invited, but she's French and lives across the hall from Loic, where the party was held, so she came), and seventeen or eighteen at the KTV place, which was lots of fun. There was a group of Koreans, of French, two Americans (Karen and Matt, both English teachers), a British dude, a Russian girl who sings this Chinese song really well, and a group of Chinese friends. The singing was therefore very multi-lingual and quite entertaining. We followed with clubbing just downstairs from the room where we had been singing. The club was pretty dead but it was fun and I impressed everybody by being the only one who danced the whole time...
And now it's off to bed because it's past 3:30 AM. Tomorrow: sleep-in.
Everything went well, from breakfast in bed (croissants and pains au chocolat - chocolate-stuffed croissants) to kareeokee (called KTV in China) and clubbing at night.
We went for a two-hour massage this afternoon. Full body. Fully clothed. Kinda weird, at times it even hurt, but all in all, a good experience, and so cheap that maybe we'll do it every week.
Five of us went, but Loic chickened out when he saw the place. He was a little scared of what they were going to do to him. So we ended up being all four in the same room, that way the masseuses could talk to each other and we could talk to each other. Pretty funny.
We ate our French-style dinner. It was pretty delicious considering the difficulties we had in making it. We started peeling the potatoes at 6 o'clock and we finished cooking around 9 o'clock. It's hard to cook when you have so little equipment - cooking everything in one pan is not ideal.
We had a rice/tuna/cherry tomatoes/hard-boiled egg salad to start, but the rice was sticky, of course (being Chinese and all) and a bit burnt, and the vinaigrette (sauce) was pretty bad because the mustard and vinegar we found in the local supermarket definitely does NOT have the same taste as it does at home... But by 9 o'clock we were starving and anything and everything tasted good.
We ate day-old baguette and a fried potato-and-cheese dish Katia knows how to make. It looked like mush but it tasted wonderful.
We finished off with real French cheese that cost us a small fortune at the Carrefour (French supermarket) yesterday. Around $10 a piece, and we got three different kinds.
We were four at the massage place, seven for dinner (the seventh didn't eat and hadn't formally been invited, but she's French and lives across the hall from Loic, where the party was held, so she came), and seventeen or eighteen at the KTV place, which was lots of fun. There was a group of Koreans, of French, two Americans (Karen and Matt, both English teachers), a British dude, a Russian girl who sings this Chinese song really well, and a group of Chinese friends. The singing was therefore very multi-lingual and quite entertaining. We followed with clubbing just downstairs from the room where we had been singing. The club was pretty dead but it was fun and I impressed everybody by being the only one who danced the whole time...
And now it's off to bed because it's past 3:30 AM. Tomorrow: sleep-in.
posted by Caro at 3:15 AM
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