After the Fall!

This is what I looked like a few days after I crashed head long into the sidewalk; definitely NOT a pretty sight.  Here I am picking out material for a skirt.

Traffic in China

China has begun a love affair with cars!  The middle class are able to buy cars and they have been purchasing cars in large numbers.  It causes HUGE traffic jams in the big cities.  And, they are CRAZY drivers.  Every Sunday was a scary day for me taking a taxi to church!

Mah Jhongg - a Chinese Favorite

SANTA CLAUS - AKA - Professor Hackworth

A Park in the Southern Part of Guangzhou

Noodles, Anyone?

The Chinese love all kinds and varieties of noodles; this is the selection at the Trust*Mart, which is owned by Wal*Mart.  It was the closest grocery store to our home and it took about 3 hours to go there and back.  A 15 minute walk to the bus-stop, a wait for the bus, then a 15 minute ride to the store, shopping, then reverse.  But, when we went shopping here, I always had to go to the McDonald's or the KFC just down the street.  I needed a fix of American food!

Hey, It's Chee Kong in China; What a Great Reunion!

Harper Plays Allen's Guitar After Class

Looks Good; Tastes Chinesy

The Face of Rural China

Speak Only English and Get Untangled; Oh, Such a Fun Challenge!

Saying Good-Bye; Final Class for the Friday Class; Can You Spot the American?

Outside our Apartment Window - still wondering what this was about

Speech Winners

Describe an object and sell it to your classmates...in groups of four.  Best sales pitch wins!

Unique Mode of Transportation

Turtles for Sale; for Dinner or for Pets, I'm Not Sure

Roommates - for Four Years

These girls will be roommates for all four of their college years; they will also take all their classes together, except for a PE elective.

Even in the Communist China - Christmas Sells

Working Out - Chinese Style

Administration Building on South Campus

Cleaning Up the Shrubbery

Chinese Motel Room Beds- Plywood Style

This was my first hotel bed - on an excursion with the English faculty.  Sleeping on the bed was exactly like sleeping on a sheet of plywood - absolutely no difference.  Except there was a sheet over the board.  Some of the people on our trips in China put the blanket under them to get some sort of cushioning.  All I can say is, OUCH!

On the Front of the Middle School By Our Apartment

Junk Food Teens; Just Like in America

The Western Appeal

Famous Floating Restaurant in Hong Kong Harbour

There is just one way to get here; by boat.  Many famous people have eaten here.

Bathroom at Girls' Dormitory

Chinese Jewelry on the Street

It's amazing because these earrings look so similar to Native American jewelry, but it is made in the Northern part of China.

The Male Half of the Sunday School Class

Loved teaching these boys; oh, they are smart, funny, clever, mischievous, and mighty fine.

Ling Ling Visits the Dorm

Dryer at Work - Girls' Dorm at Guangdong University of Foreign Studies

Headed to Guangzhou - August 2010

New Silk Pajams

What We Went to China to Do....Teach

Laundry Room at the Dorm

laundry day; just like in America it's a never-ending task.
The students hang all laundry to be dried out the back window.

Guangzhou Highrises; about one block from the church

They Certainly Don't Look Chinese!

The mother and children are Spanish; Dounald is from America.  The family joined the church and while we were in China, they went through the Hong Kong Temple to be sealed.  Virginia is AWESOME.  The kids are great and Dounald is a good man.  

It's Just a Simple Floor Heater....

But the students were not allowed to have one in their rooms; it gets VERY cold in Guangzhou, but no heaters were allowed in the dormitory rooms or in the foyer of our building.  The doors were left open, and it was often extremely cold, but the desk girls could not plug in a heater.

WHY...do they continue to honor this Evil Man?

So Typical of Early Chinese Architecture; So Beautiful!

Are We Actually Going to China - Aug 2010

Honoring the Flag

Scary Bridge - From a Hike With the English Department

Chinese Musician at Communist Party Birthday Celebration

Sight Seen Every Morning

There are no gyms, so all their play is outside...it's not fun when it's raining!

Back Door of the Neighborhood Grocery Store

The Road

What To Do When No Customers Show Up

Dim Sum Restaurant; the Food Is Set Out Each Night

One hot muggy day, I happened to walk down the street where this restaurant was, and a dead body lay on a stretcher.  A worker had gone to the fridge and had been electrocuted.  Shortly after that, the owner of the restaurant tore down this very popular eating place....it was just a pile of rubble surrounded by other shops and eateries.

Middle School Drill Time