I met the new student. But let's talk about his place first. It is quite something. In a bizzare way. The house is filled with big statues of Chinese figures, and even bigger Chinese lanterns. Think big red pineapple lanterns with plastic green leaves suspended all over the place. It was like being in a alice-in-chinese-wonderland pineapple plantation where the pineapples flew in the sky instead of growing on the ground. The dog was dressed up to look like a statue called " fa chai gong" which I think when translated literally means "strike rich divine-being." You get the picture.

The student is odd. He would do well being a character in star wars, maybe as an alien drone. He makes really strange guttural noises which I couldn't really decipher. His English, thankfully, is not as bad as I had expected. At least he managed to score 20/100 in his exam.