Decadent brunch and Chinese Sunday park atmosphere

At Saturday night I went out with Barbara (the girl from Malaysia). We had some food and later had some drinks at a place where some people sang old famous songs - Asian and International melodies. Was quite nice.

Decadent brunch

On Sunday, the "young German community" here at Hairun had invited to come along to a international brunch at a hotel. The brunch was really excellent - a lot of choice, also the sweet sings. They even prepared warm chocolate souffle for you. Yummie! So I ate just too much like everybody else. We also had champagne with the brunch.

Park visit on Sunday

Afterwards one of the people I got to know there came along to experience some real Chinese Sunday:

We went into a park - this time Jingshan park. First we climbed up the hill to enjoy the view over the palast buildings.

Then we descended into the park itself and found that there were not many foreigners there but a lot of Chinese. What did the Chinese do there? They sang together, they played musical instruments, they danced. Many seperate groups sang different styles of (Chinese) music and nearly all of them had very lively and engaged conductors (German: Dirigent). And most astonishingly: People were of all age groups and it sounded quite well.

When we watched some older people dancing in different styles, an old Chinese man approached me and asked me for a dance. So I tried to dance with him and it was quite funny.

So, all in all, I had a nice day and at the end of the day we went to the gym to lose some of the weight we had gained from the foodload we'd eaten in the morning.

The foto shows a singing group of Chinese in the park.