Dinner is served

Dinner at our place

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December 17th 2009
Last week we thought it would be a nice gesture to invite our Chinese co-teachers over for dinner. We cooked something simple, butter chicken, which turned out nice, and they brought a Christmas cake for dessert. Everything went well, although we had to quickly wash the dinner dishes before we could serve dessert (not enough plates/forkes etc). I'm sure they could understand that we don't have th ... read more

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For centuries China stood as a leading civilization, outpacing the rest of the world in the arts and sciences, but in the 19th and early 20th centuries, the country was beset by civil unrest, major famines, military defeats, and foreign occupation. A... ... read more