Justin, a well educated friend of mine in Beijing who hails from central Texas and originally southeast Texas works with the Global Times in Beijing and from time to time writes interesting articles.
I nearly forgot…. January 22, 2011 three Texans and two lovely Chinese young ladies celebrated Justin’s birthday by having a traditional Chinese dinner.
The dinner occurred near the start of the Chinese new year celebration. Jonathan arrived at dinner after having spent several hours at an end of year work party with his co-workers. That means that Jonathan enjoyed spirits nearly all day and evening long. I arrived at Jonathan’s dinner fresh off a hiking group dinner which closely followed a beautiful afternoon of hiking with my most wonderful hiking group. Annie (in red scarf,) Justin’s young lady friend, and Amara, Justin’s flat mate also joined in the festivities.