Days at the High School

So when we first arrived at the high school, we were greeted with cheers and chinese students yelling "hello." So many people ran up to us to take our picture. Girls run up to me and shyly take a picture with me, just to run away giggling after the picture is taken. We are really like stars here.

When we taught two classes, we spoke about holidays and played many games. Although the teaching was really fun, my favorite part was when our group and a few high school students were able to enjoy the comfort of a students home. The families made amazing food and we drank incredible tea. I sat a while with one of the fathers of a student and we drank "old men tea."

On one of our free days, we went to a hot spring. That day was kind of rainy but we had no idea what was in store. When we were swimming in the steaming water, much rain was pouring on our heads and we found out that there was a hurricane...so we kept on swimming. While driving home, our bus got stuck in the flooding street. The bus chugged along as far as it could go until we had to walk to the school. The street was flooded and I had a huge cut on my foot from basketball. Zhang Feng had to carry me on his back, through the deep water, all the way across the street. It was very exciting.

Today we walked down the street to a type of barber shop. We had our hair washed, which took about 30 minutes, and then we got a full body massage, that took around 30 minutes also. It only cost us 20 yuan ($3). This place is amazing!