American Day! :)

The cooks at the Bond Kindergarten, Jenny and Michael are so sweet. We love the food that they cook but I think that they just wanted to help us feel more comfortable. So today we arrived at the school and went into the kitchen for breakfast, expecting the norm; bread, and some kind of porridge or soup, but instead, there were hamburgers :) and cold crisp pieces of lettuce. It was so sweet of them, and just funny. The hamburgers weren't anything like American hamburgers and we don't usually eat that for breakfast anyways, but it was so thoughtful. And the lettuce, oh my goodness! It was so good. They really don't serve cold lettuce here at all. It's always steamed and hot. I haven't craved a nice big, cold, green salad more than I have the few weeks I've been here.

Then for lunch today, Jenny and Michael made us each HUGE plates of spaghetti. The plates were seriously packed full. I think it's the most any of us have eaten X 10 since we've been here. We didn't want them to be offended or hurt their feelings since they were so sweet to go through the extra effort to make us spaghetti and then have us waste half of it. ha. So after we did finish it and Jenny saw that our plates were empty, she ran to the kitchen to get us more! Ah! We just laughed and had to try to explain how incredibly full we were from the first plate. She is so funny.
Oh my goodness! One of the most memorable things thus far occurred this evening. Abby and I were at the track which is at the Kaiyin school working out, and we decided to go and ask a couple of boys playing basketball if we could join them. They were, I'm guessing about Brigg/Gunner and Kaleb's age so like 9 or 10. Maybe. There were just two of them so we were just thinking we'd go shoot some hoops with them or something. We walked up and I said,"Ni hao!" and they responded the same way...and then I asked, "Is it okay if we play with you?" ha. Without skipping a beat, the little boy, his name was Kevin... said with a super serious face and speaking very quickly, "Ya. you with me and her with him. Let's go!" We just looked at each other like... uh, then we just laughed and figured, shoot! why not? It was way fun. The longer we played the more kids joined. I'm pretty sure we're going to make that a weekly activity :)



These are the two ladies that work at the bakery by the bus stop. They're way funny. We love them.