Hangzhou Time Again...

Wednesday 

Hangzhou time…we arrived at 10am and had messaged our friend Jasmine but had heard no response so we called her and she said we had to wait another 20 minutes for the driver, a lot of waiting around, to say the least. Today was nasty, I was very tired and grumpy and continued to change my print so it was the right number of colours for Mr Chen.

At 3.30 Miss Guo told us we would be going to a hotel for dinner…NOOO I wanted Pizza Hut…. and 2 we had so much work to do. We left at 4.30 and didn’t’ arrived at the hotel till 6.30 the traffic in Hangzhou is ridiculous. Today was not the best day to be messed around, not knowing where we were going or whom we were going with. Miss Guo had told us we would meet her brother. Whilst in the car she explained that her brother was her uncle’s son. Confused? Yes, so were we. Either she was confused herself or that was a serious case of incest.  Panicked.

The hotel was very posh, and our mood seemed to lift with the prospect of beer. Miss Guo was I think trying to be nice and her heart is in the right place as she ordered special food for us, and we had beef and peppers, and peas with fried rice and they brought out some steak and sauce with chips.

Thankfully I’d started to relax and they understood we were tired and got home rather early, although she did say hotel for dinner again tomorrow :/

Ah I should also mention we phoned Jeremy to ask if Miss Guo meant cousin instead of brother, he explained that yes see would. In the Chinese language they use many prefix’s to describe relations so this is why things got lost in translation.

Thursday

I think I have pretty much finished my collection today. Yippe, a few changes might be made. Having learnt that our boss is not accepting of new things, I decided to design things he wants and just change them slightly.

Again we left the company early and were taken to an even posher restaurant in a hotel. The room was enormous. We dinned with 10 other people who were Miss Guo’s old work colleagues and friends. There was also a young boy called Paul, who spoke a little English to us. The previous night Miss Guo had taught us the word for Cheers in Chinese….Gang  Bei. However over here Cheers means down your drink. Every 5 minutes someone said this to us and we were forever downing our Beer, Miss Guo was aswell. Kate and I decided to be brave and tried Snake, this was actually quite tasty and was similar to chicken but a bit fatty and chewy.

Again the dinner was a lot nicer than we originally imagined, the company driver picked us up and decided against taking Miss Guo for her car as she was a bit drunk and took us straight back to her home. As we climbed the stairs she spoke in better English and told us she was “Happy, very much” and said “I sway” . This was the most fun we had had with her since our time in Hangzhou. It was only 8.20 but we went straight up to bed. The week has been so busy so I had another beer and caught up on my blog.

Friday

Just in the company now continuing on with my designs. Shopping has been mentioned for the afternoon but I am a little unsure as to what for….will post later.

Here we are with Jocelyn, she's amazing, absolutely bonkers!!!