Zhouhai

Zhouhai was a big city that was about a 3 hour bus ride away from us, and our head teacher Janette had some friends that were going to college there so we made a little day trip out of it to visit them.

We went to an Americanized pizza place to start off with (ooooh man... I had spaghetti and I couldn't have been happier eating real food). Hahah and this was their sign for the bathroom. Apparently doing your business is a very technical matter in Zhouhai. :P


After lunch we stopped off in a park and saw the most fantastic toy ever... it's basically a hampster wheel for humans that floats on water. Michael, Seantay, Mary Beseme, and I decided to try it and it was really fun, and more difficult than it looks (one person goes down and it knocks everyone else down too and it's really hard to get back up.) The last pic is just of the little pond that the bubble thing was on.


After kicks and giggles there we went and saw the famous Fishing Lady statue of Zhouhai.


Then off to another park to tame some tigers....


On our way back we passed the ....


But decided to forgo on account of time :D

And that was our Zhouhai trip!

Back at last and playing catch up

I apologize for the lack of posts for the last few months of the trip, the Chinese government shut down blogspot so I couldn't access it. And since I've been back, it's been a daunting task to catch up on all the things that happened that I've been putting it off. Well no procrastinating anymore! I am going to try and get all my adventures on here soon (hopefully... but it might take some time)

First off, where I left off was Sanya. The next cool thing we saw after that was a lion dancing competition. Each costume has two guys in it, and some of the kids that did it were really young, like around 10 years of age (in typical Chinese acrobat fashion if anyone remembers the Olympics :P) They jump from the poles in a story-dance of a lion looking for food. It was super cool.



And the costumes were pretty pimp too.


Behind us sat these two little kids who were super cute and loved to play and act like lions. In this picture the kid had just kissed his sister. Awwwww Chinese kids are the cutest ever!


Well, that was that and now I'm onto posting the next adventure... Zhouhai!

This last pic is a view from the front of my apartment just after it had rained. It was beautiful :D