Friday, October 22, 2010

Day 32: GOLDEN HANShake

It is now Friday, the last weekday of our memorable trip to Wuhan. Around evening time, everyone went out to eat at a local Restaurant together with the LSCT students and our student hosts, as a farewell dinner to show our appreciation for the student hosts' hard work and effort.

The dinner and the restaurant were nice, good food and good ambience, but I felt that it was the company that made it all even better.After a heavy dinner, we gave out some tokens of appreciations to the Student Hosts who have treated us so well the past 5 weeks. And then it was all pictures taking time.Thank you all students from WUST who have hosted us so well! We hope to return the favor when you come over next year!

Reflection:
At the restaurant, where food was served buffet style with servers going round table by table with roast meats, I wondered what kind of charge would they impose on wasted food. So I asked ZhengNa, one of the local students who sat with me. She told me that although the rule is stated clearly on paper, most restaurants do not enforce them, which was why she did not seem at all concerned about all the food left on our table.
In fact, the reason we had so much wastage was because the local students who sat with me were regular patrons, so they knew how to coax and haggle with the servers to give their table more meat and other food. Ingenious, but unfortunately, it resulted in quite a lot of waste.
Regardless, Golden Hans was quite an appropriate setting to thank the local students and to hold a farewell dinner, by giving them a Golden Handshake. (get it? get it?)

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