Well, you learn something new every day – 50 new things if you’re in a foreign country. Like the amount of time I spend cleaning the kitchen is inversely proportional to the amount of cockroaches I find there the next day. And it takes a lot of time to wring out clothes when your washer doesn’t spin properly. And you can’t expect to be an expert at a tonal language in two months. Two months next week, that is.
Another thing I’ve been learning is the value of friendship with local people. For one thing, they are absolutely necessary when I have to order clothes off of taobao, the East Asian ebay, or when I need to ask about language or culture. But more than that, they are just awesome. Some friends took us out to the river the other day (picture above).
We ended up visiting a Buddhist temple, which was very interesting. Here I have some pictures.

Please lift up these students and many more that we will meet. We have been making lots of friends at different universities.We will soon be moving to the foreign dorm at the school. We start school in the second week of September, I believe. It will be quite busy from then on. We want to start some study groups, so please yarp for this opportunity.

Just Hand Over the Recipes Nice and Slow. There's a Good Chap.

Hey guys,



Our homestay is all that we could have expected and more! I'm learning a lot about the culture and language. Although, due to an unnamed hyper three-year-old girl, I'll probably be able to successfully name the characters of Winnie the Pooh before I can understand vocabulary about the weather and time. It's great fun, though.



I look forward to every meal, and I've even learned how to cook some things. Of course, I'll have to hear it many more times to remember. But that's the fun. We made dumplings last week, which took ages, but it was awesome.








The pictures you see on this page are as follows: tofu and mushroom dish, me stuffing a dumpling, a row of dumplings created by ourselves, a unique anonymous fruit that was quite yummy, a half-eaten chicken foot, and some vegetable soup.




It’s kind of hard to eat chicken foot because there’s really no meat! I guess you just have to chew the skin off. It doesn’t taste bad, though. Really. You should try it.




If you want a simple recipe for soup, try this. Boil some spinach or another vegetable in water until it’s soft, add salt, ginger, spring onions, and chicken bouillon. It’s really quite simple. You could also add garlic.







Well, that's a little bit about the food here! Please continue to yarp for us as we adjust. We have started working on homework, but we have yet to meet and make relationships with college students, since there's still a month before school starts. We can't wait for the opportunity.

Thank you!