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Before dressing up for the big charity christmass ball, there is some fare well to be celebrated. And I mean really celebrated. Two colleagues are leaving Suzhou after 2.5 years for Finnland. Well, this is worth a small party with around 100 peopls, no big event at all.

Tschau Mika    Tschau Tapio

If chinese and finish people having a party together then it is, well, how to say, challenging. First of all there has to be good and plenty of food....

Lecki Vorspeisen    Lecki Essn

.... some events has to happen also, so belly dancer, juggler, magicians, more dancer, a life band......

Bauchtanz in China    mehr Tänzerinnen

j.... just to hand over to the relaxing part of the evening: the Gan Bei: As everything in China, Gan Bei has a tradition. You can't loose your face, what means, you have to Gan Bei with everybody who wants to and drink the glas bottom up. Everybody wants to Gan Bei with the guests of honor. Good luck, guys.....

Ganbei    Ganbei zum Zweiten
Ganbei die Dritte    Ganbei zum n+1

The party started already at 6pm, so around 9:30pm the official part was over. For some chinese colleagues not only the official part. It's not fair to contest in drinking with the finish guys. So some of us went on to the enxt Bar. And the next Bar. And the next...... But this is a completly different story.... uups, this was only the start of the weekend.

Unter Finnen gehts auch ohne Ganbei    der "übrige" Finne.....

After sleeping in on Saturday - hey, someone needs the beauty sleep to look good in the evening - the next event started. The famous charity christmass ball of the EAS. This means, dressing up, getting a Taxi and see, what the night brings.

Ein Sektchen zum Anfang    Ja, auf dem Bild ist Stephan mit dabei   

Everything was neatly posh, a lot of guys in Tuxedos, the Ladies dressed up as pretty as possible. Wow. After having some (kind of) champagne and small talk, the traditional christmas dinner started. Pumpkin Soup, Turkey and some green stuff.

die kläglichen Überreste    der Ballsaal

Obviously there was also life music, even if the dance floor went south very early the night. Why a ball room has a carpet is another miracle in China. TIC. But anyway, the mood was really to party.

die Rampnierte Tnazfläche    Luftgitarre mit vollem Einsatz
die Band    Ninja Tänzer waren auch da

At midnight - after dancing, drinking, lucky draw, having fun, we had a toast to Lanirs birthday. He nearly forgot to tell us about it,  but his wife was nice enough to tell. So we could make sure, that everybody in the room knew about it, after talking to the band ;-)

Lanirs Geburtstag Ständchen    Unsere Tischbesetzung

What a weekend - but stop, that's not all. There is still Lanirs birthday and Hannuka. Ok, Sonday afteroon we're ready to party again. And not only we, also the dogs was very happy, getting plenty of attraction.

tierisches Hannuka    Jumpy bei seiner Lieblingsbeschäftigung

At Hannuka candles are light up when it starts to get dark. I'm not sure about the whole story, but it's got something to do with the destruction of the temple by the romans and a cask of olive oil. I have to ask the background again.

es werde Licht oder so ähnlich    ...das 4te Lichtlein brennt
das erste Hannuka    israelische Berliner in China - die schmecken einfach

So, but that's it really for the weekend. Just a small dinner together with the Fins at the japanese restaurant and then home. It's Sunday night and that's schools night.

It's really about time, that Regina gets back to China, but that's really a completly different story.......

Until then:

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