Lots to write about today, so it may take a while to get this all in and uploaded. Yesterday we visited a primary school out in the village. We were treated like dignitaries when we arrived. The kids were all out front, and a band. Many of the townspeople came to meet us. We had welcome speeches from the principal and the village president. I was amazed that even this tiny school in the middle of nowhere had a ceiling lcd projector. After the speeches there was an assembly and student songs and dance. I've got videos when I get home.
We taught a lesson to a 4th grade class, looking at rocks with magnifying lenses. The kids loved it. They were so adorable and having so much fun introducing thrmselves to us in English. The school was really basic and some of the classrooms were being repaired from the earthquake last year, even this far north.
Our lunch was interesting. We split into 2 groups and went to local houses. The meal was like Chinese fajitas. I tried lotus root. Yum. Crunchy.
We went to the Wild Goose Pagoda yesterday, which was fantastic. It was the fisrt strong sign of Buddhism that I'd seen here. They had the 3 Buddhas: happy, lucky, and traditional.
Our final activity was to have dinner with a local woman. She took Mark and I to dinner, and then to the grocery store when we loved the lily root in one of the dishes. She bought us each a bag of dried lily root to take home. We ended up back at her house to meet her husband and son. Her son is 14, very tall, and loved basketball. He likes LeBron James the best, and the rockets. We taught them to say Celtics the right way. Next time I'd bring NBA stuff. Their apartment was really modern, which surprised me.
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