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5/25/2005

The highlight of the day of 5/25 was being wined and dined by the vice president/provost of DUFE. At the table were also Dr. David Wang, the Dean of School of Business and Mr. Wang, the director of International Cooperative office. I was told that such high rank university officials had never invited foreign students to dinner before. Thanks to Dr. Yao’s personal connection, this happened to our SU students. Pat was also there. He got in this morning without his luggage. So he dressed up as a Chinese dude. Again, the officials were impressed by the students and very glad that we came. Dick gave a short speech in Chinese to the fact that we were happy to have come to this beautiful university and our welcome was far beyond our expectations.

One thing I worried about during the banquet was that they served us with Chinese liquor which was made of rice and wheat and really strong. I was afraid that our comrades from America were not aware of its potency. Once they finished their glasses, someone would pour more. Pat just kept drinking when his glass was full. His face soon turned red and then yellow. The next phrase would be purple, I joked. His hotel was 30 minutes by cab from the university and I worried if he could find his way back. He asked me to go and check out his hotel. So I went. We first went to see his swimming pool, then made a phone call to the airline to check the status of his lost luggage, and finally walked around the nice neighborhood near the hotel. After that I took a cab and came back home.

posted by Unknown @ 12:00 PM