Weekend 2

For our second weekend in Qiqihar we had another 'Foreigner Friday' with Uncle Dan. This time Ian, Werner, Sarah and I met Uncle Dan at another Chinese restaurant. We were joined by Robin (Canada), Mike (also Canada) and his girlfriend Tanya (Russia). It was so nice to meet some other foreigners in the city! We ate some interesting Chinese food, including  a big hunk of meat which came with plastic gloves to eat with. Tanya brought a bottle of Russian vodka with her so it was my first time actually trying real Russian vodka.

Some chunks of meat:

Sarah with her chunk of meat:

Later that night we went to the only foreigner nightclub in Qiqihar. It was a hilarious experience. The music was completely outdated but it was tons of fun just to go dancing. Werner managed to DJ a bit much to his delight. I was surprised at the number of Russians there. Apparently tons of Russians come to the university to study so there are about 500 in Qiqihar (that is a very rough estimate). Of course being Russian most of them don't come out until much later, by which time I was at home fast asleep. Overall the night was completely unexpected but a lot of fun!

Werner doing some DJ-ing: