Hello Friends and Family,
We apologize for the expansive passage of time between previous informational expulsions. We have been very busy hanging out with friends and trying to squeeze in every last minute of China that we can. We have also been busy relaxing! We haven't taught any classes for the last two weeks, which has been a little weird, but a good chance to reflect, rest, spend time with friends and prepare for the next adventure. We are slowly packing, trying to figure out how we are going to bring all of your gifts home and starting to get very excited for our five days in Thaiand as well. We celebrated New Year's eve with some of our friends and went to the 'Brazilian Barbecue', a buffett type restaurant where they brought different kinds of meat to your table, pork, steak, crab wrapped in bacon, so it was quite the treat and fun to spend time with friends ringing in the New Year. Most schools and businesses were closed for the two day holiday, but the real celebration in China takes place in February during the Chinese New Year which we will unfortunately miss. This past Wednesday we were able to do someting we have wanted to do since we arrived in Nanning...go to the zoo! The zoo in Nanning was a lot of fun and interesting to see the types of animals they have here. We even saw a dolphin show and an elephant and monkey show. The highlight of the show was the bears and monkeys that came racing out on their ten speed bikes zooming around the arena in circles! Seeing the elephants made us excited to ride them when we are in Thailand.
Beautiful purple flowers blooming in January!
anothe view of the park
After a few more days of relaxing and hanging with friends, enjoying doing nothing, we also visited the Green Mountain Park here in Nanning. It was a huge park full of open fields, forests, temples and other things. We didn't have time to see everything, but we enjoyed throwing the football and frisbee around with friends and then taking a minibus ride, that felt like a rollercoaster ride, around the park. We plan to go back and maybe even eat at the restaurant in the park. That's pretty much been our week. We don't really know where all the time went, but we have been spending a lot of time doing nothing, we watched the whole first season of 'Heroes' in three days and even bought a wii (nintendo game system) and have been playing that together. We are counting down the days until we get to see each of you and are excited to tell you more about the friends and adventures we have had here in China. Talk to you soon.
Sincerely,
Ryan and Kealy
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