Saturday, April 21, 8.00 am: Well, perhaps it’s not that dramatic, but I did hate to say goodbye to Xue Feng (David, whose name I finally figured out to spell) and the other teachers and managers at QTC. I was given a grand sendoff. A beautiful little wooden bead bracelet with Buddha on it, a bottle opener from Tsingtao Bewery, and a beautiful Chinese fan with all the theatre character masks were given by individual teachers with whom I had worked. Ms. Huang, Dean of the Foreign Affairs Department, gave me an incredible book with pen and ink drawings of the beautiful German architectural wonders of Qingdao. And, as a group, they gave me a set of “Friendlies”. These are characters that have been created to celebrate the 2008 Olympics. Little stuffed animal/people the same
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