This morning we went to the 2nd & 3rd school to watch the Jr. General Knowledge competition. Most of it was in Chinese, but there were some in English as well. It was quite the big deal with a huge audience, all of the game-show type technology & even trophies! After this was over, there was a 'lay-up' competition (Basketball), we only watched some of this as we were going out for lunch with Janice, Virginia, & Cobol. Watching this lay up competition was like going through one of those moments when you are so embarrassed for the person, that you just can't bear to watch. They were trying so hard, & showing off here & there, but they just kept either missing, crashing into the free standing basketball net, or falling. & then all of the people watching do the "Ohhhhhhhhhh" really loud when the person messes up. It would be so humiliating!!
Lunch was good... had drunken chicken, some ong choi, various dumplings, and a spicy & sour soup. The soup wasn't very good... it kind of tasted like stomach bile & it also had pig's blood in it.. which just really grosses me out. I can't do it. The drunken chicken was fairly good (completely soaked in rice wine & served cold, which surprised me). I don't really much like the chicken here as it usually has lots of skin on it & sometimes is hairy, but the skin just bothers me.. it's not crunchy & bad for you tasting.. it's like elastic & soft as it's usually boiled.
Hong & I decided that we wanted to go to Fisherman's warf today, so after lunch we set off & decided to explore. We opted out of taking a bus b/c everything is so close in Macau.. .but soon wished we had as we wandered slightly too south & ended up much farther south than we wanted to be. But that was ok b/c we ran into that Kun Iam statue, which is worth the sight. It's a fairly new statue, built in 1998. We finally arrived at Fisherman's warf.. marveled at how bizarre and random each little area was & how there were very little visitors & had some ice cream/gelato. The last part being the highlight!!! On the way home we walked past the Kun Iam temple (which was very close to where we had Hot Pot & we had walked past it then & were told to visit), so we did! It's a very nice temple, lots of history in it. We tagged onto a couple of tours, but soon gave up as they were in Cantonese & Japanese. Came home & relaxed for a bit before the Anniversary of CDSJ school event this evening. Virginia warned us that we should eat before as the speeches would be very long & we probably wouldn't eat until about 9pm (which ended up being very true), so we grabbed some sushi.
Quite the event! It was a dinner put on by the Alumni association, lots of food & presents. I got a bizarre egg thing with a lot of glitter on it... I don't even want to open the container b/c the glitter will just spread like wild fire (youtube: Demetri Martin, 'jokes in the guitar' to find out more about glitter). Food was pretty good... many meals one after the other, in total, including the dessert there were 14 dishes. It took a long time to eat! My favourite was the steamed fish (SO GOOD!) & the boiled lettuce & mushrooms. The last dish also had something else in it... I TRIED... but didn't like it. It had chicken's feet in it, boiled as well. so again... the skin was all elasticky & chewy... & then also the webbing was still in between the toes! Eek! I definitely think that I would have enjoyed it had it been deep fried or something.. but just not boiled. I tried a bit... but just couldn't finish (so Hong ate mine, I will attach a picture soon!). One more thing... all of the little bones were much like our metatarsal bones in our feet - soo eery! Dessert was so tasty! Cookies and rolls that were almond/sesame based, & red bean soup. I was surprised by how delicious red bean soup actually is, i loved it! (it also has lotus seeds in it)
I am definitely pooched now! Off to bed I go :)
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