what about the night

Last night was interesting. It began when we met with Nestor Sulu and his wife Queena for dinner. Nestor is an expat from Mexico, of Mayan descent, who owns a web-design company here in Xiamen. Shawna will likely be doing some wok for him remotely and in-office. Nestor's wife is a native of Fujian; they communicate in English and are going to raise their now one year-old daughter to be trilingual in the 3 most widely spoken languages in the world. They are definitely an interesting couple and very well-connected to the expats of Xiamen. They took us to an authentic Italian restaurant run by a delightfully rotund Italian native where we had pasta and pizza. More foreigners than I have seen since being here were packed in the small restaurant. Afterward we strolled around another bar area where Nestor continuously ran into other people he knew, including a Colombian who opened a Mexican joint here. Looks like Alexei will have someone to continue speaking Spanish with when he gets here...
Afterward we met again with the same group of Taiwanese kids at a local over-priced bar where collectively as a group we went through several bottles of Chivas Regal and danced to a random assortment of songs.
The weather has been overcast as of late, but the temperature is not too bad. I'm hoping to go to Xiamen's satellite island 鼓浪屿 Gulangyu this week, as it is the number one tourist aspect of this place and we haven't even been yet. Tomorrow I am meeting with people from a music school to discuss their development of an English class which I might teach. Basically the place specializes in instrument lessons, but they want to teach English too. May be a flop, may not be. At any rate, time will tell.