Hello Everyone. I apologize for the late blog this week, but if you can believe it I was busy with school. I will explain in the school section later. This weeks blog is probably the most low key and shortest. I will also follow this blog up with the regular blog this up coming weekend. So enjoy the pictures and a short read.
TEACHING/SCHOOL: Well, last week we were off for the entire New Year Holiday. Sounds great, right!!!WRONG!!! Even though we had the week off we had to work on Saturday and Sunday leading up to having it off. I don't even remember the last Sunday in which I worked, let alone taught. So there you go, that was the only exciting thing about school last week. Oh, by the way, did I mention that we had to follow that up with a seven day work week. Anyway, let's move on to the fun stuff for the week.
ADVENTURES: I have to mention first of all what it was like on New Year's Eve here in good old China. Paul, Claire and I were the only one's that made it to midnight. So, about 25 minutes before midnight we bundled up and went into the village to see if there were any New Years festivities going on. To our amazement, the town was a ghost town. There wasn't a soul out on the street. We drove around for most of the 25 minutes and found ourselves wishing each other Happy New Year in front of a very quiet Luxury Resort. I guess the Chinese just save up all of their celebrating for the Chinese New Year. We did stop on the bridge that leads to our home and watch a couple of fireworks shows. That was pretty cool. The night was crisp and clear with many stars to highlight the fireworks shows. Paul, Claire and I did give each other hugs and mentioned that it didn't really matter if there were people to celebrate with, we had each other and we were in China!!! We never tire of coming to that realization, it is still awesome. We then went home and wished a sleeping Taylor and Cecelia Happy 2013.
The rest of the week we spent catching up on sleep and just hanging out. Paul, Cecelia and the Girls went with our friend Michael to visit a forest park. Ziayaosan Forest Park, north east of Guangzhou about three hours. The park wasn't as cool as they thought it would be, but they definitely had some fun with Michael, his family and friends. Paul loves to work on his Chinese whenever he gets a chance and he had plenty of time while riding in the bus and having lunch at the park. The pictures are of their adventure.
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| At the waterfall |
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| Bamboo forest |
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| Paul, The girls and Michael's Family |
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| Cecelia Choosing Lunch. Uh! I'll take the pigeon |
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| At another Waterfall |
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| A cave to nowhere |
The only other thing that happened was that while walking in Guangzhou shopping, a man came up to me and asked if the girls would be willing to be part of their modeling agency. I was a little suspicious at first, but the flier he gave me was very professional and the office called me right away to assure me it wasn't a scam. They asked if we could come by their studio for a photo shoot. It was in the area that we were going to be in anyway, so we decided to go. We met the photographer at a very nice office building and he showed us some of the catalogs in which their clients model. They specialize in kids clothing and the catalogs were professionally done. He spent about an hour with the girls and they had a good time doing it. Claire was a little shy at first, but warmed up to the camera in the end. Of course Taylor was a ham and really had a good time. I have included a couple of their photos.
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