No. You can't leave.

Cheers to the freakin’ weekend!!! (Yes I just quoted Rihanna #yikes)

FRIDAY FRIDAY FRIDAY!!!!

Well people, I know you're worried about my sleeping habits, BUT not to worry, I finally got to sleep in!!!!!!!!!! Literally didn't do a thing until 12:30, and that's only because I had to get ready for work haha Skidded into work at 2:20 on. the. dot. They finally let two white people work together today. It was unbelievable. There was a few times that I was supposed to work with Thomas, but basically because they didn't want two white people working at the same time they would just change my schedule. It was Thomas' last working day because he put in his resignation letter about a week before we came to Dalian (he obviously didn't know how much fun he'd have with us) so today was officially his last day at Shangri-La. Fortunately for me he was there since the day was slow so I had someone that I could finally speak a normal pace with at work and who could actually teach me things. Althoughhhh I didn't really do anything because there were about 5 foreigners total again haha Of course I talked with them all for awhile, gotta say, I don't hate my job so long as the guests want to talk haha Some of them just won't have me at all, but I can usually get them to smile at one point because, well, I'm just a smiley person (usually haha) and I think it's contagious. Seriously.

Anyways we couldn't go to icafe for dinner because they were super busy so I just went to the staff canteen during my shift, the food was pretty good! *Ray, not sure what I ate, but it tasted like the mandarin chicken from Panda Express, needless to say I ate a ton of that haha* Afterwards I needed something sweet. So of course we went to the mart across the street from the hotel to get a Snickers bar #OFCOURSE Pretty sure I downed that candy bar in .6 seconds, no more, no less. #candycandycandy I was supposed to work until 11, but at 10:30 B shift (the shift I was today) goes in the back office to do paperwork.. Sooooo I talked to my buddy for the day and said "Soooooo I can go now?" "Oh yeah yeah, go!" with the most adorable smile ever! Everybody here is just so f’in adorable. I just want to hug all of them!!! Anson was such an awesome buddy, way more smiley than my current one who sucks, and he actually had time to teach me things, yayyy!! #sweetiepie

After work, you know what sounded great? Sitting down. As soon as I walked in the apartment, Heather and Ann are like “Hurry up and get ready we’re meeting Kamal outside the hotel in a few minutes” Luckily I already had ridiculous makeup on from work, so I about jumped out of my suit and heels and straight into normal clothes and flip flops #nositting We left right after I got ready and we met Kamal and then went to this bar called Strollers. It’s for Westerners, they had good music, food, and there wasn’t many people there so we could actually hear each other talking without having to yell so loud like at JD’s. Taka and Thomas met us at Strollers and then while we were there we saw this one guy sitting at the bar who just looked sad and lonely so we invited him over to hang out with us. Turns out this guy, Bruce, is awesome. Oh and he’s Australian. So maybe he wasn’t cool and his accent just won us over, I don’t know. Haha Just kidding, he was cool, probably early 30’s but he fit right in with our foreigner group. We hung out at Stroller’s until it was about to close and then we headed to Alice Bar (the semi-stripper place haha), it was pretty dead in there and we saw some guests from the hotel haha #awkward We drank away, and then were confused when we were the only people in there. I asked the waiter when they close, he said 3, so I asked what time is it? He said 3:15 haha #whoops We weren’t done with the night. We all walked back from the bars to our apartment and bought some more beer, and just hung out in the apartment. This is the reason our kitchen was a WRECK the next day. Taka was the chef for the night. The problem: we had no food, or at least not enough of one thing. He decided to make pasta, using the random green pepper I bought the other week at CarreFour, corn, pepper, more pepper, garlic, eggs, cheese and it was so freaking delicious. Drunk or not. We took a pole. #ChefTaka Then he decided to make mashed potatoes with bacon……. We don’t have anything to smash potatoes, so he used a wine bottle… WORST IDEA, not only did it not work, it made a huge mess haha Did we clean it up at night? Nope. (Sorry Mom) Around 4:30am when the sun was coming up is when the party ended, which none of us wanted haha

By far, my favorite night in China! :)

Roomies :)

Bromance. Kamal & Thomas

Last time out with our European :(

Let's put another shrimp on the barbie!

Chef Taka.

SATURDAY

Incase you didn’t know Thomas is leaving. Hahah He wanted to get lunch with us, Sophia (the Korean Guest Relations Officer, who is amazing), Taka, and his friend Silver at Café Copenhagen. We were all a little drunk getting up in the morning, hence the reason Ann and I had a half hour for both of us to get ready haha #poorplanning Café Copenhagen could not have been a better choice after our night out. We were all starving. We all ordered the classic European breakfast which had eggs, sausage, bacon, toast, bread, a crepe, fruit, beans, jam, and coffee, and it was all so freaking good!! We loitered there for hours. Literally. We decided that Thomas cannot leave. It's not okay. He's our white guy friend haha Even though we can't always understand him with his German/British accent, he can't leave haha (hence the blog title) Welp after that, a few of us went to Children’s Park and just walked around and it was such a beautiful day out so it was perfect!! Oh and I didn’t look like crap for a change so it was even better haha When we were walking around, this girl came up to us and just took a picture of us on her phone of us talking haha #WHITEPEOPLE It was pretty hilarious! I’m pretty sure it’s all over the Chinese Facebook by now haha

Since we were over by Rubys, we had no choice but to go over there! We ended up getting dinner there and I got the Ruby sandwich, aka meat, cheese, lettuce, pickle, mayo, eggs and more meat, so fantastic #stuffed #FAT Andddd we got green tea #typical We loitered in there for a bit and then headed back to the apartment

When we got back, we did the dishes from Hurricane Taka. It took quite awhile haha But now it’s clean : ) We basically just hung out, talked, and then went to bed haha Only because I was A shift the next day #NOOOOO

Sunday? I think?

All day today it felt like Monday #confused I was the only one with A shift, but I had heard that in the lobby of the residences that there’s free coffee between 5-7am for people going to work, I decided to check it out because like I said, anything is better than this instant stuff. Best idea. Well once I figured out how to work this impossible machine it was the best idea. Okay let me set up the scene: It’s 5:50am, I have a huge tshirt on, shorts, a sweater and flipflops but my makeups and hair is done but I look tired as hell #bags I take the elevator down to the lobby, there’s a guy sitting in one of the couch chairs, I awkwardly say Ni Hao and so does he. I walk up to the machine, and put a cup under and hit the espresso button.. except nothing happens.. I press it again.. and again.. nothing happens, meanwhile the guy on the couch is watching me and walks over and then tells me that it needs water so he walks up to the security guy at the front desk and wakes him up (yup he was sleeping haha) and he walks over and jiggles the machine and then an espresso shot comes out.. but then it needs more water and more coffee grounds.. so then he came back with water and stuff, and I finally got my coffee! I mean, of courseeeee the machine couldn’t just be easy haha #myluck but who cares, I HAD REAL COFFEE THIS MORNING!!!!!! :)

Welp, I went to work. And today was not my day. Quite an off day. Let’s just say I managed to be less helpful than useless today, no idea why. On the Brightside, I got to hang out at Lobby Lounge with Heather (she’s working there now) for about a half hour talking to guests haha

After work, Ann and I immediately went to Carrefour. On a Sunday. At like 4. What a mistake. It was sooo crowded. BUT we were on a mission to get food so we managed to get back by 5! And successfully didn’t by useless things this time haha We came back and then went to meet Heather for dinner at 5:30, I totally forgot that today was father's day so when we walked into icafe there was an ice sculpture that said "Best Dad" haha and then there was a BMW cake, we were like whatttt?! Then we realized why haha But there was a photographer that went around and took pictures of every table and then printed it out and put it in a frame for the table. Ours is so freaking hilarious. It's clear Heather's the dad in the picture because she's still in her suit haha Ann's the mom, I look pretty normal and Sarah just looks weird all hunched over Heather hahah It’s awesome! It’s now the centerpiece for our table.

Tomorrow is my day off! I’m going to sleep in no matter how loud the construction workers are. #challengeaccepted

Miss you guys! Especially my family, sorry I couldn’t be there for the party, wish I could have been!

Happy Father’s Day!!! :) 

Our Father's Day Dinner haha