Chapter 11 - A Typical day in China

A Peaceful place in China -

Well this morning is a day where i teach at the other school. Well To walk there, you have to follow this tiny path and this morning/afternoon i stopped and took this peaceful pic of the farming gardens. Plus there was not a single person around! No honking, kids crying, no people yelling chinese. IT was quiet. Might be the first time that it has been quiet in China. So i hope the picture demonstrates how peaceful it was right when i took the picture.

At the other school which is SO much smaller, all the kids have figured out that the tall goofy looking kid is alot of fun. So kids are requesting that i play basketball, badmitten, or whatever game they are playing. Kids come up to me measuring themselves to me. Its so cute!

A Shoe Shine -

Well i had a break between 2 classes so Lee and I went to our tortilla lady for lunch! We both got a few for lunch and found a seat in the town square. Trust me there are going to be alot more pictures and stories generated from this place once it starts to warm up. Well there we are enjoying our lunch and this lady comes up to offer to shine our shoes. We denied..

Then just 2 minutes later another lady came by with her shoe cleaning station in hand and a stool and asked if she could shine my shoes, i asked how much. 2 rnb! Now remember its 7 rnb equals 1 us dollar. So i had her shine my shoes and she did a wonderful job! Made me super happy. I was jumping around clicking my heels together in the air! I was laughing, they were laughing... just a good memory. I even went back and paid her a little extra of course!!!

Dinner with the Top Dog -

Then after we got home not even 10 mins we were told that we are having a dinner with other foreign teachers. So out the door we went and we started walking to this restaurant. a car picked us up and with the guy that has been taking care of us. Stone. And the driver of the van/car was our principal! Yeah we are having dinner with principal and top dogs of our school! Even people from our China Horizons group! It was so good to see some familiar faces! The seating was of course the principal at the head of the table with his back to door that would exit the room. Guess where i was.... hahaha yeah i had my face to the exit door. All the foreign teachers were far from him. Hahaha but dinner was nice and you wouldn't believe all the alcohol and bai jiu. Now this a very strong drink and its clear as water. In fact, bai jiu translates into white liquor. Well the chinese do alot of toasts! Well usually the general rule of the toast you usually drink the same thing the person giving the toast is. Well no alcohol in this body so instead we got these kiwi drinks! Oh they were so yummy!!! I plan on bringing some home because oh they are very yummy. Well you have to like kiwi but if you do this is the drink for you! But the principal toasted to us thanking for our arrival at their school. IT was all in chinese but it was so cool because you could hear how thankful he really was to have us, all of us there.

After our dinner we went back to school campus walked around near the students class rooms and some of the past teachers introduced us to their old classes. It was a tons of fun! This was a good night out and we found many things to do in our little town which i am very excited about!
I best be getting to bed because i found out that i am covering for a teacher tomorrow morning at 9 in the morning! Would love to hear from everyone! Love you all and miss everyone! Wish i could have been there for a sunday dinner with everyone! i miss it! Please email with questions or stories!
Love everyone
Jordan