We went to a dinner the other evening with Rochelle's best friend, her husband, another couple and another two old highschool friends. I told everybody I won't drink any wine since I drank about one bottle of wine the day before that at another dinner and was sort of recovering. The problem was that I was really thirsty and the only thing put on the table at the time was a bottle of red wine so I decided to drink a glas with the host. The thing is, in China it's difficult to say no to drink more than one glas once you started drinking, its kind of inpolite. I told them that previous nights I had mostly been drinking with Rochelle's familys' friends, i.e. older people and that it was not so scary to drink with young people so it was ok. I wish I wouldn't have said that because the host took it as a challenge. We kept drinking. Eventually the host, me and another guy had drunk three bottles of red wine together.
The other guy's face was turning into a color of dark shade red, black and dark blue, which I had never seen before. When I cheered with him he just looked at me with empty eyes, the glas and then made a indistinguishable gut sound of disgust and drank it. The host however seemed completely untouched by the drinks. Me, I was beginning to feel a bit tipsy so I began eating all the "exotic" types of food I didn't consider trying before. Seacucumber may not seem very tasty but when you're trying to stay sober it's a good medicine. We opened one more bottle and thanks to the food I managed to make it all the way through...I even began taking the initiative by handing out the cheers. The other guy appeared to be in another place and after we finished the bottle he crashed in the couch.
The other guy's face was turning into a color of dark shade red, black and dark blue, which I had never seen before. When I cheered with him he just looked at me with empty eyes, the glas and then made a indistinguishable gut sound of disgust and drank it. The host however seemed completely untouched by the drinks. Me, I was beginning to feel a bit tipsy so I began eating all the "exotic" types of food I didn't consider trying before. Seacucumber may not seem very tasty but when you're trying to stay sober it's a good medicine. We opened one more bottle and thanks to the food I managed to make it all the way through...I even began taking the initiative by handing out the cheers. The other guy appeared to be in another place and after we finished the bottle he crashed in the couch.
Me and Rochelle on the left, the drunk guy with the red/black/blue face with glasses, the host in the middle and the guy on the right who had enough after two beers and still has a nice red tone.
The drunk guy's wife was a piano teacher and sort of added a new dimension to the dinner by playing for us. I asked her if she could play Elvis but she never heard of him.
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