News from the underground!

Ni hao, people of America, from the land afar! We took a chinese class today and I'm totally gonna be fluent by the time I get home. ;) jk that's a joke the language is ridiculous. I learned some fun stuff though!
Well, let me tell you a tale of our little zoo experience. It was quite a wonderful all day adventure. We got up early, took the sky train to guangzhou south, and went to the zoo! It was really fun. I think what was so fun about it was we always just have a blast. We all get along great and it's just oodles of partying all the time. We went to this animal show thing which was actually really sad. I feel like we treat our animals a lot better in America. They trained these moneys to ride bikes, and this bear to ride a bike and carry a parasol across this tight rope thing which was pretty cool, but they had this thing through his nose and they'd pull it to get him to do stuff! And they'd hit them and never smile and it was just really sad. We were all just really appalled and left after sweet megan left with tears in her eyes. It was sad.

Our reaction to the animal cruelty

On a happier note, it was really funny because they had a lot of wolves and horses and dogs in the zoo like it was a big deal.. Um I have those in my back yard. Anyways, I also held a snake and fed a giraffe! It was pretty awesome.

Look at that beautiful accessory! I wear it well if I do say so myself. 

We are so dang cute. :)

This is a very normal thing. The little kids just have holes in their pants so they can just go wherever whenever.. 

I was soo nervous!

So cute!

I love giraffs! 

Kinda.. :)

Bamboo forest

BEAutiful jaguar. 

Soo cute. He's looking at me!

We came home and were exhausted and drew faces on our chins. Let me explain.. You draw a face on your chin, upside down and cover your face, using your mouth and your mouth, and the drawn eyes and nose on your chin. It's pretty funny and we had a good long laugh about that.
Sunday Rachel and I went to church, which is about a three hour trip, but when we got there they were done which was kinda disappointing. But at least we tried. I guess they decided to start earlier than they told us last week. Anyways, I'm glad we made the effort because it seems more when we have to sacrifice more for it and actually have more of a desire to go. I hope by the end of the semester we all have the desire to go. We'll see how it goes.

Rachel and I on our sunday adventure

Then later that night we talked about families and politics and church and about everything else you can think of. I love these girls. Then we made face masks with this sea weed stuff. It was pretty hilarious. We took about a million pictures which I'll try not to overwhelm you with.

Modeling pose

awkward family photo

Some strange mud creature

My crazy roommates

It was so fun though. We were cracking up. Ooooh good times. Then we talked about boys, and life, and did other girl things. So basically we have girls night like every night and it's so fun. Man, I'm just so grateful to be with these girls, they're all so great and we learn so much from each other. I love being here and I love china.
Oh and friday night we went to have dinner with the mayor. Yeah we're pretty much a big deal. ;) It was a big teacher group thing. It was cool though. My head teacher told us that they asked us to perform so we started freaking out and decided to sing 'the princess pat' that we sing with the kids because it was all we could think of. Then she told us it was a joke. It was pretty funny.

Oh just the usual, chicken heads..

We went back to our second week of teaching today which was different because we had flag ceremony (that we have every monday), and it was teacher appreciation day! And I was the teacher this time! :) I like being the teacher on this day for I was showered with awesome gift and beautiful flowers. Apparently it's a huge deal at our school and the kids performed and everything so we only taught like 2 lessons. It was really fun. They are so stinkin sweet.

This little girl is definitely one of my favorites. Her name is  Lorin and she's so stinkin cute.

Except both of my classes were extremely rowdy today and didn't listen to anything I said and I almost lost it for a minute. It's pretty hard sometimes. But them the part of the day that's usually my worst was my best! yay 'store' improvement! :) And I just had this overwhelming feeling of love for those precious little asian babies of mine. They're so cute and I was so proud of them! They are seriously so fun and I wish with all my heart I could bring them all home to meet you guys. Anyways, it's been a good weekend. I'm always pretty tired, but it's worth it because we do so much! It's just great. And that's all I have to say about that. :)
Enjoy some more pictures! (that you can't see..)

Most awesome taxi ride. Sooo fun. and dangerous.. Don't worry I'm ok dad.  

On the skytrain!

On our awesome motor taxi, in action shot!