Expatriates

We have officially finished our first week of second semester, and taught our first class!

We know what our Draping II personal projects will be:

This fun little 18th century riding jacket with waistcoat and:

While it's not *entirely period appropriate, I'm throwing a little robe polonaise skirt on it (I want to get familiar with the style/draping with large chunks of fabric

We now have a back up project for Millinery II, should the opera headdresses fall through, and we have two weeks until we find out what our production draping assignments will be.

We had our first tai chi class, our first cooking class is at the end of next month, and we start Mandarin this Wednesday!

Our first class of Millinery I went really well! The students were really enthusiastic, and they had fun making the silly little paper bonnet challenge:

Beauties! :)

After, we one of the TNUA former students, Vanessa Lin, took us to a millinery shop owned by a Mr. Ting and his family. It was beautiful! They work exclusively in straw, and the hats were so fun!

Not a big space, but packed to the brim with beautiful hats!

Back here is their workshop

They make incredible doll hats, too!!

Next, we went to Jim's favorite dumpling place (not the one Anthony Bordaine went to, but wholly hell was it good!)

Nellie with the restaurant's mascot

And me too

Instructions on how to properly eat the dumplings

Pork dumplings and mountain greens (with tiny dried minnows in them)

They have vegan options! Emily was so happy! Mushroom dumplings

Shrimp and pork dumplings

Nellie and I split an order of the beef noodle soup--that was a wise decision!

Then, Vanessa and her friend Emily (Wen, in Chinese) took us around what I would assume is a neighborhood for expatriates--there were a lot of white people who appeared to live there. 

It was really trendy, full of coffee shops and hipsters and boutiques

We went to "On Tap", a very American bar (with Pink Floyd posters on the wall and Onion and beer cheese soup on special) And Nellie got a pint of Hoegarden (or as the bill said, "hoe")

We stayed a little longer than we probably should have, but it was a great day!