Ryan and his Friday class
Hello Friends and Family,
As the title of the blog suggests, its true! We just bought two plane tickets to Hong Kong! Actually, we're flying into a city called Shenzhen, then taking a bus over the border to Hong Kong. The president of the college's daughter goes to school there and she helped us arrange coming here when we were still in Oregon and she has invited us to stay with her on the campus of Hong Kong University. We are going to fly out next Thursday and stay through the weekend. We are looking forward to seeing a big city of China and such a famous international place. If anyone has any recommendations on things we should see (or gifts to bring back), let us know!
We had a good time this evening together. Celia, Joe and Amy invited us for dinner called 'hotpot'. Similar to fondue, but any kind of vegetable or meat or tofu is thrown into a boiling stew and you eat as you go. It was fun trying different kinds of mushrooms, tofu and vegetables and they are always fun to talk with. Amy, the five year old daughter, even let me play her little kid electronic game so I could practice my Chinese.
Celia and her daughter, Amy
After dinner, the high school students here where we live were having a English performance and speech competition. Each class sang two songs, one in English and one in Chinese. Popular English songs were, "Loving You', 'You are my sunshine', 'Venus', You raise me up', and 'I can be your hero'! Then, different students would give speeches about friendship. We helped judge the competition and we were supposed to give scores from 1 to 10. So I gave scores of 7.35976, just for fun (hehe) It was fun seeing some of the students we have gotten to know here at the school a little bit. At the end of the competition, some sweet break dancers did a little number that was phenomenal!
On our way up to our apartment, we were ready for some Oreos and to watch the Unit. But you have to be on guard in China, because the second you relax, something crazy will happen. Our porch light was out, so we tried to open our door and we could see the keyhole. After fumbling around, Kealy asked me to try and I thought, in my manly pride, that I could rescue the day and get us into our apartment. Instead, I broke the key off inside the lock and the handle to the outside of the door fell off! We had a good laugh and Amy and Celia came up and laughed at me too, a humbling, but fun lesson. Amy even used the broken door handle as a phone and we talked in Chinese/English for a little while. Anyways, hope you have a great day. talk to you soon.
Sincerely,
Ryan and Kealy Thorson
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