new year for me and u

pretty! on the side of a random building

Now, let me just say that the beginning of 2010 has already been a hot mess for me. I hope the entire year doesn’t follow suit.

pirate ship we found haha it was near starbucks, which is all we really cared about

new years masquerade ball on campus

The issue is this entire week I wasn’t supposed to be teaching classes, I was supposed to be putting grades into the computer and getting ready to leave Thursday night for my trip. But… Mark, one of our many bosses has said that we must teach this week including Thursday and Friday. I was supposed to be drinking margaritas and delicious beer and making sand castles on Friday. Here was our mistake: Mark asked us Saturday night if we could all go Sunday to the crazy town where he took us at the beginning of the year (see blog entry called bad and good day) where they took us to a tiny town to be paraded around and signed 100’s of autographs for middle school kids. Which was all fun and games, but we never wanted to go there ever again. We were all exhausted from being out of town and from new years and just needed to stay at home Sunday to plan lessons. So because we said no he decided he would play the asshole card.

The VP and three of our other bosses said it was okay for us to miss Friday but Mark insists that we can’t and he isn’t the top dog but i guess we needed clearance from everyone. This is causing us to change our flights to Saturday (costing us $$$) and also costing us more $$$ because our hotel rooms were booked for Friday night, but we wont be there. Needless to say, im thoroughly annoyed and he can suck it.

He wont be able to use us again; he is always inviting us yo weird sketchy bars and parties to make himself look cool because he has foreign teachers at his school. For instance, just last Monday Mark called and said he wanted us to meet the CEO of some mining company, so he came and got us. After being in the car for 45 min we were taken to a hotel. Then there was a karaoke bar on the top floor of the hotel and we got introduced to a shitload of random people who looked like they were on drugs. We were all sober and it was bizarre. The men were grinding on what looked like their trophy wives with their shirts off and they kept just bringing boxes of beer to our table. I swear if we wouldn't have been there the Chinese people would have been having a giant orgy. It was amusing, but disgusting.

On a different note, new years in Chongqing was a great time. We all went to the city center and there were fireworks, and people everywhere celebrating even though it wasn’t Chinese new years. We all went outside and stood by this monument where there were lots of fireworks, and then we continued bar hopping. I of course broke my camera (for the millionth time) by spilling water into my purse. So the pictures kind of just stop and I wasn't able to capture all of the fun.

typical pose

attempted pic of the crowd and everyone had balloons they let go of at 12

ballooons before the big release at midnight

looks like theres a glow stick comin out of phill's nose

We came back Friday afternoon from the city only to discover that coincidentally Alison and I had both left our keys in the apartment. Normally, being locked out isn’t an issue because our boss lives in the same building and she has a spare, but she was out of town. Next best answer was to break in. Problem with that is all the windows have bars. Somehow some way, Tom, who is Mat and Peter’s friend that’s visiting from England was able to use a knife to derail the sliding doors on my balcony and break the lock. Thank god…I really wasn’t looking forward to being homeless the whole weekend.

kathryn and her zack morris cellphone

me and the brits

tom and i

haha morning after. kathryn stole this hat off some lady's head then bolted

Well friends, hopefully I’ll be shipping off this week…late, but better than never. So, new interesting photos hopefully coming this way soon.
Ive never been on vacation for nearly two months before!!

Peace and love you all,

CZ

written by  cz74699 on January 4, 2010 from Chongqing, China
from the travel blog: Chongqing, China
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