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Well well reader, It's Chinese New Year and it really is going (fire) CRACKERS over here !!!!(see what I did there? Ok Gav enough of your crappy DJ lines) Yeah Chinese New Year is on Saturday and I can't wait. I'Ve been told lots of good stuff about it from the people over here so it should be a great time. Everything stops and shuts down over the festive period. Lots of people go away, including quite a few of the ex-pats. But I'm staying in The Joe (slang for Hangzhou), all the bar staff have left The World Famour Maya Bar, so I think myself together with Sheridan are running it, we were asked but who knows? Apparantly the sky lights up with Fireworks and at 12 o clock, there's nowhere in the visible sky where you can't see them. I'm trying to organise a hike up the mountain, or secure a great rooftop viewing point. As I am typing this I can hear huge fireworks going off outside, so there you go. So that's Saturday. Don and Jennifer go to Wenzhou tomorrow to meet up with her family, then come back for a day and go to Thailand for a couple of weeks.

Anyway, the 'Tuesday Night Music Club' (as I now call it) is going great, week two was a success with loads of new faces putting up with my singing and a few even coming up to sing themselves. Great night, I really look forward to it. A lad's just arrived from Manchester, Adam, top lad....and guess what? He's a solicitor in Moss Side....and the first thing that I said when he told me?........yes you got it 'You must be very busy'. But he's a good lad. Last night we met up with the American contigent which was great.

I've starting giving guitar lesson and I had one for a couple of hours yesterday with a kiwi. The hardest thing about having a little office above a bar is the fact that when you finish working or whatever you wanna call it, you then need to walk down the stairs and through the bar.......and there's always someone wanting to buy you a drink......it's a tough call I know....so last night was the same, the guitar lesson I was giving ran over a little bit, as I was walking down the stairs I heard lots of American laughs and craic, so I was straight onto it, with the usual 'Right I'm only staying here for an hour. That didn't happen. The owner gave us all some stuff that is apparantly 10x the strength of red-bull with vodka. the stuff was fast man. Less than 30 minutes later the owner and one of the americans were rolling around playfighting on the floor for ages. I just spoke to him before and asked him if he was planning anymore romantic Valentines nights for his customers where he ends up scrapping.

Anyhoo, what else,.....ermmmmmm I go to meet some new students tomorrow. I was supposed to go tonight but as it's Dons last night and Chinese Davids birthday, my scrawny ass has been invited to KTV, the karaoke drinkfest. Not that I want to go. I have had a severe....how can I can say this nicely?.....ahhh thats it...a stomach upset....I am currently having Imoddium for breakfast everyday and taking the strong advice of my dear old man by carrying cycling clips with me (you work it out)

So I'd better get ready for this night and this weekend, I'll try and post some piccies of the fireworks thing as soon as I can. Anyway better go, the immodium's wearing off.
Laters People
LOVE
gAv

PS Rick I'll youtube that TV thing ASAP