Hi Folks.  Sorry for the lapse in updates.  Things have been busy, moving from one semi-crisis to another, planning lessons and teaching classes.  Semi-crises include a broken toilet, no water, and a water cooler that overheated and almost caught on fire while we were sleeping.  A real crisis involved spending over ten hours in two Chinese hospitals with my roommate who wasn't doing well, but I'm happy to say the second hospital was able to help and she is doing better now.

I am so ready to take a break!!!!  I have to teach tomorrow morning, but then we will be off on our three day break and I will finally be able to get out and see all the beauty of Hangzhou.  We'll probably do West Lake tomorrow afternoon and then I'm off with a couple of the girls to see the Thousand Island Lakes and the Stone Forest.  Really looking foward to it.  It's good that the session is ending.  The students were really starting to get fatigued and I can't say my energy was staying up either with everything going on.  But the break is almost here and it'll be nice to take a breather.

Anyway, I'm off to do the exciting task of laundry. 

This shining beacon calls to me.

Oh yeah, this hits the spot.

Other camp food, purchased for 5 kwai (about a buck)

It was ok.

Alice, teaching a student how to dance during activities

Borav, Alice and Alice planning more activities for the students

The view of the street from the school

A little street by the KFC

Timea and Christina