A Night Out On The Town

This is our new favorite place to hang out on the weekends. Apparently they have really good nachos with homemade salsa, but I have yet to try them because they are always out. I have been having major Mexican food withdrawals for a while now. Can someone please look into sending me a burrito? It would be much appreciated.

This is Timo...or Tibo...or Tivo...we can't really decide. But he lives a couple buildings away from us in our community and we had just met him earlier that same day. Anna and I were sitting in our little reading nook and she looked out the window and was like "Dang, that's definitely not an Asian." She flung open the window and started asking him about his dog, meanwhile the rest of us had our faces pressed up against the window drooling (the lack of testosterone here has made all of us slightly crazy. We freak out when we see - or smell for that matter - something even remotely attractive). So that night we are sitting at the pub and Anna was talking about our little encounter with the hot foreigner and seriously not five minutes later he walked up to our table and was like "Didn't I talk to you earlier today?" What are the odds.

Walking Street

I love my bubble tea

Can you find my friends? They are there amidst the chaos, I promise.

I'm Alive!

Walking down Palm Street to school

Max! He's one of my favs.

Milo...one of my other favs

Clubbing in China in our hot uniforms! Doesn't get any better than this folks.

The floor was not so clean

Ok so I am terrible at this whole blogging business. I really have no excuse for not posting more often because I definitely have the time. The past few weeks we have just been chillin around our apartment and checking out the city...which is sweet! Disco techs, karoke bars and pubs in China are hilarious and such a blast!
We taught a summer camp last week, which went well but was a little bit on the insane side. We teach kids that are anywhere from two to six years old so we are always having to do last minute adjustments to our lessons to cater to the different ages of students we will be teaching that rotation. Things get pretty crazy, but despite the chaos teaching is so fun and the kids are the cutest things I have ever seen. Since our school is just barely opening there are only about 20 kids enrolled right now so at the moment I only have to teach once or twice a week. Sweet! We teach from 8:40 AM to 11:30 AM, have lunch at noon, have Chinese lessons for about an hour and then the rest of the day is ours to do whatever we want. I have plenty of free time to do the many things on my list of things to accomplish while I am here. I have already almost mastered my rubik's cube, done yoga every morning and read half of the Book of Mormon and two novels. We start Chinese classes today so I will be learning the language and studying that a lot. I also bought a guitar yesterday and will be practicing that a lot so I'll be a guitar playin' fool when I get home! So many things to do...and I actually have enough time to do it all. It's awesome.

Our Unfinished School

Home Sweet Home

Our living room. Notice the little reading nook in the window, it's my favorite place in the entire apartment.

My roommate Anna in our bedroom

Uh huh...we have a pool and it's huge

The view from our back balcony

Longji Rice Terraces

Look at the size of this thing! These guys were all over the place.

Wandering through the village, a camera in each hand. That's just how I roll.

The view out of our room window at Longji