I've been dyeing easter eggs at school and still have one final batch to do in my art class on Monday. It's still rather humorous to me how the simplest things become incredibly difficult in Asia and dyeing eggs has been just this. Just getting the school to get WHITE eggs was a bit of an issue, let alone finding enough containers/bowls, drying mechanisms, etc, for 15 kids. My apartment looks like a recycling depot since I am saving anything and everything I can for use in art projects like empty water bottles and cardboard boxes.
In an attempt to get away from it all get out of my spring blues that I've been in, I went to Qingdao last weekend with a few friends from work. Qingdao is a port city across the water from Korea which meant that we just *had* to get Korean barbecue for dinner one night. We walked along the water and looked at the beach, checked out the german architecture including a church on what is called a "European style street," and went to food and barbecue streets for various meals. Oh, and we went to the Tsingtao brewery!
Overall the weekend was peaceful and lovely until a horrible train ride home with no dinner, an hour-long wait for a taxi in the underground parking lot of the train station in Beijing, the walk up 14 flights of stairs, and my discovery that my internet had been disconnected at 12:30 am when I got home...
Oh, but I drank beer out of a shopping bag on "pijiu jie" (beer street) across from the Tsingtao brewery. Ah, the sacrifices we make...
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