Hey everyone...sorry it has been so long since my last post. We have been busy the last few weeks. Since my last post we went to visit our friends Gavin and Kelly in Huangshi. They are teaching in this wonderful little town where they are some of the only foreigners. It is a nice visit for us just to get away from the big city.
When we got back, Stew and I had the week off from teaching. Our students were going on a community service trip to a local farm. They worked on the farm feeding the animals and sleeping in the barn. The school didn't want to let Stew and I come along for safety reasons, so we decided to go on a little adventure of our own. I bought a bicycle and we rode them 200 miles to the largest dam in the world, the three gorges. The first day we rode about 120 miles in ten hours...but when we woke up the next morning, Stew's knee had a weird shape with some fluid in it. So we didn't want to risk making it any worse. So we took a bus the next 80 miles to the large town before the dam. So we start walking around the town and we see the only foreigner in the town. Stew stops to talk to him, and we find out that he was dating this Chinese lady who just happened to be the manger at the best hotel in town. So we got hooked up with a nice room for half the cost. Amen. Then the next day we went to the dam for a few hours. Then we took a bus back to our Wuhan home.
Here are some pictures of our two trips.
Little Boy in Huangshi.
A little Park.
Sweet bread man. This bread was so good.
On our bike ride to the Three Gorges Dam, there were nothing but cotton fields the entire way. This is probably where your t-shirts come from!
It was hard to see because it was cloudy but this is where they raise and lower the boats to go from one side of the Dam to the other.
Me and the Dam...There isn't much to do at the Dam!
2 comments:
yeah taybar! i can't believe you road 120 miles...yeah yeah yeah. that's so great and i am so proud of you for getting out there and doing as much as you can to make your year in china as memorable as possible.
i love you friend!
Taylor - You found our bread man! His name is "Li" He used to be outside of #3 high school, but he moved our second year shortly after I shared some Good Materials a Good DVD and a Good Booklet. I came back after sharing them and he told me in Chinese that he now believe the Good Stuff and that we were bros. Apparently people in his life had already primed the field and I just got to help reap the crop. So if you can tell Gavin to try and connect with him do it. Or if you can do it. Tell him you're the friends of YaDang who taught at #3 for two years with the old couple (1st) and the Culp family (2nd). He'll surely remember. So good to see his picture. I figured I'd have to wait until eternity to see him again.
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