After the speech contest I had lunch with Shay and Lesley. Shay by the way was just an observer at the speech contest, and I can imagine with little else to do other than watch was a little bored. After lunch they invited me to their house to have coffee, which I gladly accepted cause I would have had to wait around for a bus home anyway. This gave me an opportunity to see the inside of teacher housing on the college campus. It was clean, light and moderately sized, and therefore quite pleasant.
We had a long and pleasant chat about things in China and at Dawai, and they very kindly gave me a book about Nanotechnology from American Scientist. They had it spare, because of a shipping mistake from Amazon. The coffee was made in a drip/filter machine and was reasonably tasting. They occassionally buy their coffee from Amici (a local coffee shop selling blend), Tesco (apparently they have some of their own branded stuff which I have yet to see) and Carrefoure. I told them about my experiences with coffee and that the cheapest and best I've found is from a small shop near Sanba Square Tesco.
After this I was then tasked to go down to the fish market in the bay that lies 10-15 min walk away from Dawai's front gate. I had been instructed to buy the same dry/smoke cured fish that I got last time I'd been down there, for Miao to take back to Shenyang and give to relatives this week. However it was rainy, and the live fish sellers were out in force, but there was only one stall for dried fish, and thusly overcharging. I tried to bargain but the woman wasn't having any, so I walked away, waited to get on the bus to go home and listened to BBC podcasts on the way back. Thus endeth the day of the Speech Contest.
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