Beer in Dixie Cups!

Yangshou as we mentioned in a previous posting is quite touristy. Lots of foreigners milling about. It makes sense that it would be a good place to have an English Language school there. On our last day in Yangshou we were approached on four different occasions on the streets of the city by different Chinese students that wanted to invite us to a party presumably to practice speaking English. We were a bit reluctant but after being approached for the 5th or 6th time we decided to go. One of the incentives was free beer. When we got there we were each greeted by about a half dozen students who at this point in the evening were anxious to play good hosts to the rather small group of foreigners that showed up. We were served beer in dixie cups and some delicious fruit and peanuts. We were then also told that there would be a performance in a few minutes.
The performance was quite entertaining. They had planned various line dances to both American and Chinese pop music. I also participated in a game of Charades that turned out to be more of a word association game. The evening culminated with some singing performances and a very odd fashion show where several students did what looked like a runway walk to music but only one woman was dressed in a new outfit. Beer and soda kept flowing through the whole event and I was glad to see that the ration of students to foreigners improved greatly as the evening went on. They did good on street recruitment.