So our last couple of days in Beijing were great, especially without the worry of teaching practice on our minds. On the Thursday we all went out in Beijing and it pays to be a girl on Thursday nights in Beijing as it was Ladies Night which meant that cocktails were free for ladies before midnight. We had a lovely lie in the Friday which we felt we all deserved as we had had a long two weeks. Then it was time for the closing ceremony in the afternoon!
It was very sweet and it started with a picture slide show to music that CAEIE had made us. We had seen them snapping away over the two weeks that we had been in Beijing and it was a lovely gesture. It was then our group’s performance of our expertly executed Chinese role play along with a marvellous rendition of “Tian Mi Mi” (which is all about seeing someone in your dreams, sweet smiles and all things beautiful). This was then followed by 3 more renditions of the same song by the other language classes and then the upper language class came along with their rendition of a Chinese song that is still permanently ingrained in my brain…
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| Performance time.... |
We were then treated to a lovely dinner in the CEAIE offices. A few of us then went to Hou Hai which is another bar street but a little quieter than San Le Tun and it’s ever so pretty as all the bars and restaurants surround a beautiful lake. We treated ourselves to some Italian ice cream and a drink and then made our way back to the hotel for our last sleep in Beijing!
It was a little sad that we were leaving Beijing and the comfort of being looked after by CAEIE. Being told by one of the speakers at the closing ceremony that they “loved us all” was very sweet! People are very ‘to the point in China’ but they wear their hearts on their sleeve. Chinese people are lovely and warm hearted in the way they speak and express themselves. I think I am going to come back home all soppy! Even on the notebooks I have bought in the stationary shop, nearly all of them have something cute written on the front. For example: “Funny: That my heart has been captured by your funny little smile” or “My Life: Endless Thousand Words: my heart will always be the most pure blessing”. So yes that’s how I now choose my stationary…the ones with the cutest/cheesiest sayings on them! I would love to be the person whose job it is to come up with these things…
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| Hou Hai all lit up |
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