Claudia and Dan organized a BBQ at their place on Sunday 18 (today!) and I went there.

There was no frog at the barbecue, but last week I took this nice picture on my balcony which show one cute little local squatter:

At the BBQ there was Kelly (Kelly and me below)

After 4 years in Australia Kelly finally got the answer for her PR (Permanent Residence) application.
She got rejected!
She'll be back in China in one month (don't repeat anyone, it's a secret! she is so sad). Immigration law is one harsh aspect of life.. Ho well, I am planning to go visit her next year. While it's problematic for me to stay too long in the cities, as in more than one week, and as I fear she will probably be in one of those "small" 20 million Chinese country town! I plan to quickly head out for the real Chinese country side, of which I have already seen the nice holiday pictures from Sabrina!

Other than that it was a "disguised" Chilean barbecue (Claudia is from Chile)

Kelly, Claudia, Sabrina

Claudia and Patrick (Patrick is a real Austrian from the mountains!)

We had nice food, nice afternoon by the pool (ahum.. .Sabrina was thrown in the water by some evil Austrian (and German) ), and I met my new parents! (it's a private joke, nah, you can't understand, hehe..)