More to Come...

Ni Hao!

Sorry we haven't posted in a while... School has been pretty busy and all of the foreign teachers here (including Thomas and myself) are all sick with colds! But we are taking some pretty interesting Chinese medicine. These pills are handmade and look like tiny little balls- think rabbit poop! They taste like dirt but they are supposed to heal your throat not just make it feel better. They used this kind of medicine since the Ming Dynasty so it is pretty old medicine! Kind of interesting...

Thomas and I started Chinese lessons with our tutor Neva. She is a professor at one of the universities here in town and tutors several foreigners. We are starting out with the basic pronunciation and some of it is pretty difficult but we are learning. Hopefully it wont be too long before we start picking up some basic Chinese language sills. I can kind of order food so far and that's about it!

School has been going pretty well. Thomas and I have to teach the new two weekends in a row because we have the next week off due to the Mid-Autumn Festival. This national holiday is also called the Golden Week and most everyone gets off work. We've decided not to travel any where outside the city yet because we still have a tone of sight-seeing to do here in Nanjing and traveling during the Golden Week is supposed to be near impossible because everyone in China is traveling at that time. With that said, by next week we will definitely have some new posts and pictures of all the other interesting things to do here in town.

Tonight all of the foreign teacher are attending a dinner provided by the school. We get to schmooze with the head honchos of the school. It's free dinner and drinks so we are all pretty excited. Next week during our break we plan to go to that Japanese restaurant for an all you can eat and drink party as well as go to a concert to see an American band called the Cave Singers. We are all pretty excited for our break coming up, so stay tuned for more cool info! We love and miss everyone! We will write again soon...

P.S. Just an FYI we are back on Facebook again! So feel free to contact us via Facebook if you want or need to. I was definitely going through Facebook withdrawal, you know, the shakes and what not, so it feels good to be back!