The Lemmertorium

I stopped by Jared’s blog the other day and noticed a post entitled “coryandlacey“. It was written a while back, but I took the time to run it through a translator. This is what Jared said:

“Cory and lacey had to return to homeland, had the trifle moved! Once together was spending together the happy time regarding these two american, I now did not know had to say any! Only can be wishes their good luck! First time meets by chance is in Yucheng in the one, had not thought after the college entrance examination the summer vacation could in the more than half month time, at that time we become the friend together! Has the friend to come from the distant place, delight! Much less is two foreign friends! Did not know because any they must return to homeland ahead of time, the summer vacation distinction became parted forever!”

It was a really nice post. It was written in Chinese, and there are simply no good translators on the internet to make it sound right, but you get the idea.

Thanks Jared, we miss you too!

Apparently McDonalds thinks so. Ads in China can be pretty crazy, and it’s always great to see something that makes sense to a Chinese person come out completely crazy when viewed by a westerner.

In this ad Yao Ming is either making bull horns while encouraging people to eat beef, or he’s worshipping Satan. You be the judge.

From: One Billion Users and Shanghaiist

[tags]Yao Ming, Satan, McDonalds[/tags]

China holds a special place in my heart. Lacey and I lived there for 9 months, and have only recently returned. Whenever I hear interesting news about the country, and especially it’s relation to the US, I plan to blog about it.

That brings us to today’s news from Atlanta. A panda cub has recently been born, and in a ceremony was named “Mei Lan“, or “Beautiful Atlanta“.

You can check out the article here, and here’s a short video of the MeiLan taking her first steps.

Technorati Tags: China, Panda

Sorry its been so long since we’ve posted! I’m not that great at it (I don’t even know how to put pictures up with posts) and Cory hasn’t felt like it. He says that now that we’re not in China nothing is exciting enough to post about. I figure people still want to know what we’re up to. Anyway, we haven’t even posted galleries from our Meizhou trip or our parents in Beijing yet. So hopefully we’ll get some of those pictures up soon. Basically, Cory’s right though. We aren’t leading that exciting lives anymore. We are trying to find jobs in NE and SD right now, looking at three cities mainly. We are just pingponging back and forth between our parents’ houses. So we are still jobless and homeless. And we miss China. But things are going pretty good. We are getting excited about a few job and art opportunities, excited to be home for Christmas, and have had fun doing a lot of talks in churches about our experience in China. So thanks for all your support and we hope you have a very happy Thanksgiving and are home with family to enjoy it.

 Yes our parents and Cory’s brother who have never travelled out of the country have arrived safe and sound in Beijing! Besides wearing them out with all the walking, I think they are doing good and we are having fun teaching them about Chinese culture. This is a picture of us at the Forbidden City!  

There are three new galleries up. One is of our trip to Grape Mountain and Yantai. We went with YaNan and Kyle to eat and buy this area’s famous grapes. They were delicious. Then we decided to go on to a city on the coast, Yantai. Yantai is a port city with some European history. We didn’t find too much to do there but ate at Pizza Hut and went to Wal-Mart which felt a little like home. We also went to a Daoist temple to look around. click here to see The next gallery is of a day of playing in the park with two of our students that also go to our church and we hang around with sometimes. click here to see The newest one is of a day we spent visiting with some church people. We all went to a church lady’s date farm. It was a lot of fun. We picked dates, shoveled peanuts, and did some cricket chasing! There are no pictures of our cricket chasing but we have some videos that I think Cory will post later. Yes, we caught a lot of crickets and yes they were for the church people to take home and fry them up to eat! click here to see