Final lunch with Betty's family

Her niece, Yue

Mum and Dad with lunch ready to eat

Betty with her Mum, Dad, Grandmother and niece
(Her brother and sister went MIA after lunch)

I gave Yue my Brisband Lions octupus mascot

me with the family

Four generations of girls
Grandma, Mum, Betty and her sister, Yue

Spring 2006 - Yangzhou with Colleen & Jeff

Night on the town

Colleen & I - Slim West Lake

Oh, the crowds!

He Yuan Garden

Colleen & Jeff in the pedicab - before the fight

Me and Jeff - outside the lake

What a lovely couple

The best vegetarian lunch ever

Artistic shot - taken by Jeff

Spring 2006 - Peach Blossom Park BBQ

Me & Bill - rafting along the river

Colleen & Rain

The infamous - Bill and Mark

Jeff, Colleen & Rain

Before things got too messy

Chinese students - feeding frenzy

Betty & John doing the BBQ

Jeff & Rose visit - February 2006

These freaky fish follow where you walk!

Jeff, Rose & Betty on our day out

Winter holiday Feb 2006 - Changzhou

Sherry and Brando - Dinosaur Park

Frolicking with the dinosaurs at Dinosaur Park

At the bird taming show - Dinosaur Park

With Sherry - eating "Pai gu"

Foot bridge - Grand Canal - Changzhou

With Sherry at the shopping mall

Sucking the bone marrow

"Pai gu" - basically pork on the bone

My school in snow

View from my apartment to the main admin building

View from the main gate to the admin building

My apartment block
2nd floor on the right

The road to my apartment block

Snow still falling as night falls
View from my window over to one of the teaching buildings

Christmas Day 2005

Reindeer - The "old" team

Irish Mark the red-nosed reindeer
The "young" team were judged the winners by the waitresses

Pigeon heads - decoration for the Christmas lunch

Some of the dishes in the Christmas lunch spread
including bbq pigeon served in the cage

more reindeer games