Just wanted to continue to keep you update on our weekend activities. We had a good day today, it was beautiful weather and we could actually see blue sky! Pretty rare in the humid and cloudy south. We had the chance to go to lunch with our pizza hut friends plus a couple more at a restaurant in an area of Nanning that we had never explored before; a new bird and flower market with shops and restaurants in ancient Chinese style buildings. When you got to eat with large groups in China, you can get your own private room so you don't have to compete with the noise. So we had a nice air conditioned room where the kids could play (five of them) and we ordered different kinds of food like fried rice, sweet and sour chicken, pork and eggplant, which kind of tastes liked mashed potatoes. We had a nice time and I even got to hold the pizza hut baby, the 10 month old daughter of our pizza hut friends. She likes to dance on my lap and buzz her lips, its pretty cute:
Me with the pizza hut girl and our other new friend
After lunch we walked around the different shops and even found a shop which sold some really cool stuff for cheap, stuff we would like. We bought a wall tapestry made by a minority people in Yunnan that we both really like. Hopefully most of you will recognize the scene being depicted. It holds special meaning to us.
Also, we found two wall pictures that were written in Chinese that were scripture verses so we bought two; 1 Corinthians 13 (the love chapter or ai -pronounced I-in Chinese, which means love) and The Beatitudes (fu-blessing in chinese).
A beautiful girl in front of the beautiful new bird and flower market
We came back and hung the pictures up and cleaned the house. Tomorrow will be a busy day of teaching and we will be preparing our students for their conversational mid-term next week, where they will meet with us one and one and we will choose a topic and discuss it with them for two minutes. We are also going to share with them about Halloween and finally, we are going to have a pretend Business Expo, as the real ASEAN-9 country expo is in town this week. Hopefully we'll get a chance to go down and take a look. We'll try to get some pictures from that on here too. Hope you all have a great Sunday! Talk to you soon.
Sincerely,
Ryan and Kealy Thorson
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