Day two was Sunday, and we had a welcoming reception. We woke up, found our free breakfast, and explored the hotel a bit. Breakfast is an interestig mix of cultures. There's a daily omlette stand, and usually sausages, breads, and hard boiled eggs. There's also fresh fruit, salad, hash brown patties, Chinese dumplings or steamed buns of some sort, random vegetables, congee, dry cereals, and juice and coffee. Nice spread, and I'm eating rather healthy when the fresh fruits and veggies are nicely cut up and available every morning. I think they reevaluated the coffee situation after we cleaned them out the first morning in minutes.

The weight room was comical. Good free weights and machines, but not the biggest space, and the treadmill made us all laugh. It was a self propelled little thing, and I think I'll be running on the street instead. I'd probably break it in my enthusiasm.

Off to the reception at 2pm, and first view of Zheijhang University where our classes are held. After a wonderfully perilous street crossing in front of the university, it's a really pleasant campus. Lots of trees, and they tend to decorate with little 4" pots of growing flower plants in circles on the sidewalk every 15' or so. The buildings are about 10 storeys tall, and rather institutional. Functional, basic amenities, more comfortable chairs than our home school, that's for sure. We gathered in the main auditorium and met the Director of the Zheijhang Law School, and Professor Sung who arranged the program with Professor Tiefenbrun from our school. Our other professors introduced themselves, and they had all of the students - Chinese, American, Canadian - introduce themselves as well. Then we all milled around a bit outside. Dinner was supposedly planned, but that turned out to be a trip to the dining hall. We weren't terribly impressed, so we went over to the restuarant across from our hotel, after dropping Mom at the hotel.

We walked in, much to the amusement of the restuarant staff. We were somewhat dressed up from the reception, and we managed to communicate that we wanted dinner and there were 4 of us. They seated us and found the English speaker in the place. A very nice man, he led us back to the fish tanks area. Instead of a menu, they have displays of various dishes in refrigerated cases, roasted pork strung up, tanks of living fish to pick from and small baskets of vegetables. Each has a price displayed. We picked a cucumber salad and fruit plate from the first case, some BBQ pork from the second, I picked out a zippy, flashy silver fish that looked rather healthy, some dumplings from the far case, and broccoli and bok choy as veggies. He escorted us back to the table, after punching in our selections to this cool little Blackberry looking jobber.

We managed to order drinks, after I had a moment with Mr. Blackberry about whether they had TsingTao beer or not. I really didn't care, I just wanted a beer instead of overpriced bottled water. But we got our drinks. The meal was delicious! The fruit had an interesting mayonnaise sauce in dollops on the watermelon and melon, but everything else was a smash hit in our Chinese food ordering bingo! Since the displays aren't great, we weren't entirely sure what we were getting, but we got some fantastic dishes. The fish was sublime, delicately steamed and served whole, eyes popping on a big platter. The veggies were perfect and nicely cooked. Considering the language barrier, we did well!

Then just back to the hotel and off to bed. Jet lag ate my head, and 8:00pm sounds like a lovely bedtime!