Time to Sing Kumbaya

Well it sounds like Zhengzhou is making the news in America! I received an e-mail from my mom letting me know that our snow/ice storm made the Oregonian. I told my students about it and they were pretty excited that people in my hometown knew about Zhengzhou. It has been pretty bizarre and I guess they have not gotten snow like this for close to 10 years. Thankfully it is beginning to warm up again (we hit 28 degrees today!) and some of the snow is melting so I am actually able to run at a decent pace.

Randomly, we lost power yesterday. It was pretty strange considering it was only the school that lost power (no where else on the block) and there was no storm to accompany the outage. We made the best of it by getting together, lighting some candles, telling fortunes and bonding. Aside from the cold, it is one of my favorite China moments.

Tomorrow we are off to Fuzhou for a school sponsored trip. I am pretty excited because we are finally going to be part of a tour group that gets matching hats! If you have been to China - it is all about the matching apparel and we are finally going to get to walk around in one of those groups. Selfishly - I just want the hat, but oh well. We leave in the afternoon and then spend the next three days exploring a mountain and a coastal town. I am pretty excited to not teach anymore - tomorrow will be our 10th day of teaching in a row, so we have earned this much needed three day weekend. I will post plenty of photos for you when I return.

That is all for now.