by Jim Quinn | Aug 9, 2017
8 August 2017 – And finally, yesterday, we visited a clothing boutique that I discovered when I first arrived in Jinan. The clothing, the I first saw it, said – ‘this is stuff Mary would love!’ I bought quite a few pieces for Mary, Oona and...
by Jim Quinn | Aug 9, 2017
7 August 2017 – So, after this gargantuan meal we all need to take a walk in the night air. People everywhere – walking, dancing together, going into the mall for air conditioning. It was probably 86 degrees, dew point at probably around 75 degrees –...
by Jim Quinn | Aug 9, 2017
7 August 2017 – Another angle of our hot pot table. Mary taking a breather before the vegetable cooking part of the ‘ceremony’ / ‘ritual’! Hot pot is sequenced in such a way: Cook and eat the meats, then cook and eat the vegetables, then...
by Jim Quinn | Aug 9, 2017
7 August 2017 – My very good and wonderful friend Hu Qing was asked to choose a special restaurant that Mary and I could treat her to. Hu Qing was one of my models in the very beginning of my teaching the spring term portraiture class. We became very good...
by Jim Quinn | Aug 9, 2017
6 August 2017 – After a meal together at my favorite noodle shop, we took a walk to and on the campus of Shandong Normal University. This is where one of my former students, Su Jiani, graduated from before coming to Nazareth College. Currently, she is now in...
