Lesson: Whatever you do to a Canadian in a time of confusion and crisis, however you restrict his liberties... you can make it all better with a beer:
Quebec students put under a seven-day quarantine in a small hotel in northern China are getting beer and McDonald's delivered and spending their time playing mahjong, ping-pong and pool. The 27 Université de Montréal students in China to learn Mandarin are in good spirits despite their isolation, David Ownby, director of the Centre for East-Asian Studies at U de M, said Tuesday. “It’s not an unbearable situation. Beer was found – and university students know what to do with beer,” Ownby said.
A beautiful and beery moment in global overreaction.
Comments
kathie - May 7, 2009 4:22 PM
everything is better with beer!
rompinreggie - May 7, 2009 8:56 PM
Hi does anyone know if the university is accepting new applicants? I've always wanted to brush up on my Mandarin pronunciation skills. The McD would be out for me, but I am sure I could live off belly fat, from start to finsh. China has some rip snortin good beer. We have a restaurant down at the traffic light in our village, and the owner is a sweetheart named Abby. He and I have been known to quaffe from his private reserve til exhaustion. Abby is the only Chinese gentleman I have ever met than can cook real fine, laugh as hard as me, and pound the old beer like a West Coast logger.
And yes, we agree, everything is better with beer, especially the seafood chop suey!