Cooking on our own and swimming with caps

Hello Friends and Family,

Another good day teaching here. It was a much warmer day with no thunderstorms. By the time I (Ryan) arrived at the school I was very sweaty and the students kept telling me to stand under the fan because I was sweating so much. All classes went well and we are starting to use the text books some in our lesson planning. it is a helpful guide and tool for the students. One student walked into the class before it started this afternoon and I was writing on the board and whistling, he said something in Chinese and I asked him what he said. He said I was a giant hummingbird for whistling in class! Pretty funny.

This evening we were preparing our first meal at home when we heard a knock at the door. We opened the door and in walked our five year old friend Amy with three icecream cones in her hand. She had brought ice cream to share with us and came in and we played guitar and sang songs while Kealy cooked our wonderful first homemade meal. We cooked beef, corn, carrots, broccoli and noodles with soy sauce in our wok and it was delicious!





As you can tell, I like the meal Kealy made very much. She even invited Joe, Celia and Amy over for dinner tomorrow night and she is going to cook for them, and me. Amy watched us eat our meal and played around us. She liked to play the guitar and she is very talkative. She knows that we cannot speak Chinese but she carries on just the same. She has even taken it upon herself to teach us Chinese. Tonight, we learned the word Yao Yo (Swimming)!

After dinner we went to the swimming pool with Joe, Celia and Amy. The pool is much like the ones in America and very refreshing. It felt good to get the stickiness off from the humidity. However, it is a rule in Chinese swimming pools that you must wear a cap when swimming to keep hair out of the water. So...we each bought our very own swimming cap!



We both got a kick out of each other in our caps! We had a fun time swimming and now we are relaxing for the rest of the evening. I don't have to teach a class until 2:30 tomorrow for 1.5 hours and that is my work day. Kealy has one class from 8:30-10:10 so that is it. It should be a relaxing day. We are going to plan our weekend and go to the market to buy fresh food for dinnner. Talk to you soon.

Sincerely,
Ryan and Kealy Thorson