Lacey wants to share pictures with the lot of you. They are all the kids she worked with at the middle school last year. I’m sure an interesting story will be attached to each image.
See the new gallery here.
All the posts attached to the opening of a new gallery.
We have 2 new galleries up on the website. One is from Lacey, Kyle and Yanan’s trip to Lao Shan (Old Mountain). The second is from Lacey, Brett and I’s trip to Lao Long Wan (Old Dragon Bay). Check them out at the gallery page here.
It’s been a couple weeks since we finished the summer program. As Gil says, “there’s no rest for the wicked”. And while Lacey and I attempted to spend the week at rest and relaxing, Kyle and Yanan began their plan to move the school across town and begin writing their own English books. Yikes!
Lacey and I enjoyed the summer program. It was long and gruelling at times, but it was great getting to have the kids for 3 hours a day, and getting to know many of them. I loved my middle schoolers, and lacey loved her 6th graders. We all had a good time.
The gallery I know everyone has been waiting for is now up. You can check it out here.
We know you’ve all been pining away, waiting for us to take pictures of the new apartment. Well, they’re here. 
Update: We added a few new pictures to the gallery.
Earlier this spring we taught an English Corner at a local Elementary School. It was during the week that Jessica came to visit us and I took some pictures. I hope they give an insite into what elementary-age Chinese kids are like.
Look at them here.
So we were wondering if the Great Wall really is all that great….It is. We all (Cory, Jessica, and I) decided that it’s pretty darn cool. Nixon even said, “It sure is a great wall.” He must have been left almost speechless if he couldn’t think of anything else to say. The Great Wall was built to defend China from raiding Mongolians. Apparently, this did not work, as the sentries could be bribed. However it worked great as a road to get across the mountains. While visiting the Great Wall we made many jokes about avoiding the invading mongolians and also about becoming real men. Mao Tse Dong once said, “You are not a man until you have climbed the Great Wall.” The thousands of steep steps upward into the mountains are pretty grueling. We went as far as we could go on one side until the wall turned into rubble. Jessica, Cory, and I have become real men. To see photos of this adventure, Click here
OK, not really, but they did go to a wedding photo shop together and had pictures taken in Qi Paos. The Qi Pao is the traditional Chinese wedding/formal gown, and the ladies look lovely in theirs.
While viewing the pictures in the gallery you might want to entertain yourselves by answering the following questions:
- How many umbrellas can you count?
- Are those firecrackers real?
- What is that stringed thingy?
- Who’s wearing the fake hair?
- And, just how much make up did they have to put on?
Oh, and at the end of this gallery is a pic of Lacey with her very own custom Qi Pao. It was made from SuZhou silk (which is quite famous over here) by a local tailor here in Pingdu.
The gallery is here.