A little of this- A little of that

Sunday's in China are nice and relaxing. We have church at 10 am and then lounge around, explore the campus and take walks around the neighborhood.

Last night, for Valentine's Day, the girl's went to Downtown Hefei for ice cream (China's chocolate ice cream is yucky but the cookies and cream is delicious). We usually take the number 3 bus (2 Yuan = $0.25 us). It's a 20 minute bus ride that is extremely cozy :) The buses are ALWAYS jammed pack. Trying to get back on the bus was a joke! There were so many people waiting and so when a bus comes you have to be fast, pushy, aggressive and mean. We didn't make it onto the first bus so we had to wait another 30 minutes for the next one and barely made it on that one.

The food is amazing! I'm getting better and better using chopsticks :) 

I had to take a picture of this meal... it is my favorite so far. Of course I had some hot tang and rice. The top square has eggplant and meat in it. I've never really eaten eggplant before until China and it is amazing! it has kind of a weird texture but, I love it :) And the bottom left rectangle is some sort of veggie with the most delicious noodles I've ever tasted in my life. I wish I could box up the food and sent it back home for everyone to taste because it is to die for!

This is one of my many Chinese friends :) I don't know his name cuz he doesn't speak English :) When I asked him what his name was he just looked at me funny and kept swinging on the Chinese version of swings :) Sometimes we go out to the basketball courts and play with the older kids (high school). They think it's hilarious to see girls AND their teachers playing ball.