For those that try to follow this blog, sorry that I haven’t updated it for a while. On the 2nd our internet cable broke and we now have gotten it fixed. So here I am. 🙂
So I asked if you want to be a super star. Forget the whole spending years enhancing your already amazing set of skills. Just come to China! As you can see, we are pretty much celebrities everywhere that we go. Yesterday (Saturday) some of our students, Zoe and Angela, asked us to have lunch with them. After we had lunch with them we went to the city park. This area was awesome with great landscaping that surrounded a pagoda-looking library at the top of the hill. We spent some time walking around the park taking some cool pictures. The cool part came when we started walking uphill.
When we got on to of the hill that is when things started getting interesting. In front of the library is a big cement gathering area and there was a bunch of adults (singles I am guessing ;)) doing various activities. Jordan and I jumped in on a game of Tug-o-war and that was when chaos broke loose.
Swarms upon swarms of people (mostly adult but there were some children) came to get pictures with Jordan and I. It was awesome! It was crazy and we felt like celebrities! It is amazing how excited seeing two people that are tall and white skinned. 😛 Thankfully our friends Zoe and Angela were willing to help with our Chinese and took pictures of us. At that point I learned that Chinese people love their diagonal photos, as you can see in the top photo.
In all of that mess, there was one family that came up to me that I thought were really great. I was taking some pictures when I hear a Chinese lady say “Hello” to me. I turn around and see the lady with her probably 12 year old daughter. The mother said, “My daughter is studying English and wanted to say hello.” Of course I could resist. We had a small conversation and I came away impressed at how hard her daughter was trying to speak English the best she could. It never ceases to amaze me the work that some children put into there education. Before she left we got a picture together:
Anyway, as of today we have been in China for a month. For the first time it now feels like time is flying by. Being here is a lot of fun and it is going to fast!