Hope you had a safe Halloween! The weather continues to feel more and more like home each day...cold and rainy! Its more like a drizzle, of course, just like Oregon. We are not sure if it will continue or not but we are enjoying it while it lasts. So today we stayed inside and wore sweatpants and sweatshirts, drank hot choclate, and finished season 2 of Prison Break! Then tonight, we went to our weekly English corner at the college. We are always so nervous and not that excited to go, but every time we go, we have a lot of fun. It is tiring and a little intense with 20-30 Chinese students surrounding you for two hours, but we are learning to concentrate on one person at a time and really feel like we are developing some good relationships and they are asking good questions. We are also getting a lot of the same students each week which is great for building deeper relationships. We always look forward to a cold bottle of water afterwards as well. Two of Kealy's students we have become particularly fond of. They have given me the nickname 'captain' and everytime I see them, they stop and salute and say 'Aye, Aye Captain!' Its quite funny.
Tonight we were talking with the same studnets about bus etiquette in China and how, when the bus is crowded in China and a woman or elderly person or a foreigner gets on the bus, young men will get up and give them their seat. So Wei Ching, or Cola (his english name) told us a funny joke we thought we would share with you:
There was a young Chinese man sitting on a crowded bus in China. A young foreign woman got on the bus and was standing up, as there was nowhere to sit. At the next stop the man tried to get up and the woman put her hand on him and kept him from standing up. Five minutes later at the next stop, he tried to get up again and the woman put her hand on his shoulder and kept him down. A third time, five minutes later, the young man tried to get up again. The woman put her hand on his shoulder and said, 'where I come from, men and women are equal!' The young man replied, 'Hey lady, I've been trying to get off the bus for the last three stops!' (HaHaHa)
The other funny joke we've heard from a couple of Chinese students is, 'what is the only thing with four legs that Chinese won't eat...a table!" or, the alternative from Paul Lopez...two americans!
Hopefully those brightened your day. All the students were amazed to find out tonight that Kealy and I dated in High School, and even more surpised/shocked to learn that we got married in college! It is not allowed in colleges in China for men and women to get married, they have to focus on their studies or be 21 if they are not in college. Though they do have girlfriends and are quite silly about dating. One student told Kealy tonight, 'I have been struck by Cupid's arrow!' But he was too shy to tell her the name of the girl he liked. "She is one of your students," he said. When Kealy asked for the girl's name, he leaned in and said, "All in good time, Ms. Kealy."
Have a great day. Here's some pictures of Kealy teaching. Talk to you soon.
Sincerely,
Ryan and Kealy Thorson
Kealy with the college behind her
Kealy and one of her classes
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