We ate turkey and mashed potatoes with Audra and Donna (our family in China) forThanksgiving at Moon River Dinner. We spent the dinner talking about things we are thankful for. The coat that I'm wearing is a new one that I had made in the cloth market.
Russ, me and a couple of friends went over to Jane's apartment. (Jane and her dad on the left). Jane is a local friend. She works as an architect for the city of Shanghai. Jane's dad taught me and Donna how to make several Chinese dishes. Since he couldn't speak English and we couldn't really speak much Chinese, it was all hand motions. I learned that Chinese cooking is really complicated- tons of chopping and adding lots of ingredients. Russ ate chicken heart that night. He's so brave!
We had a couple of our friends over for some of my Mexican stew. Below is Ron, Audra, Emily, and me. To the left is Ron and Russ. As you can see, my couch is a lovely bright neon green!
The company has a sports day parade every year. We were asked along with some other teachers to walk in the parade. We were told to wear dresses, ties, etc. Mandy and I thought it would be fun to wave like Miss America. After we walked around the track, the master of ceremonies had us run around the entire track (1/4 mile) in our dress shoes. It was one of the wierdest experiences we've had yet.
A group of us from the school went to Karaoke. This is a very popular pastime in Asia. Everyone is a star at Karaoke! To the left is Russ, Phyllis, Donna and me. Below is Dan, Brian, my Russ, John, and Rob.
