Rain, rain go away. We have had no luck with weather. The Chinese culture believes that being in the rain will make you cold and when cold you will get sick. So it has been very tough to teach. They did get in the water yesterday but they were not happy. The kids are grade 5&6 and excited to be here. They are non swimmers, most can barely put there face in.

Went to a hot pot restaurant. Basically boil your own food in front of you...... Like I needed more humidity. Ha. But it was good. One of the things I don't like is all there meat looks like bacon...sure doesn't taste like bacon. Boo!

We completed the main part of our teaching yesterday. Hard to believe those three full days went by so quickly. We now end up with a day off because of the pool being required to student swimming exams. The grade 7 kids need to complete a 50m swim (boys 70sec, girls 90sec) in order to move into grade 8. I watched some of them practice yesterday.... And I don't believe some are going to make it. Eek! We are supposed to go to a budist temple today and see a few ...

We got to spend the day on a beautiful island with Buddhist temples. It rained on us most of the time but it was still worth it. We took a 20min ferry ride to get there and spent 4hours on the island. We stopped for lunch on the island and because they serve little meat,if any, we ate vegetarian. Eek! But it was delicious! We ate fungus ( or wood ear) , tofu soup and sweet and sour lotus root The island was so enjoyable and calming. Tho as the only white gir...

Starbucks this morning. Fabulous. It's raining hard here so it was a wet walk in the rain. Worth it still, blueberry muffin and coffee. Great start to the day.