Today we woke up very tired and trudged to class. We had yet a different teacher today who was very lively and friendly. While she did try to speak a lot of her language to us, she was very understanding of our limited knowledge and tried her best to help us. Instead of repeating every word over and over again, we only read each section once and she let us choose different ways to do each section. We concentrated on the tones a lot since we find that the hardest. She also gave us information on teas, and we discussed differences between America and here.
After school we went to the cafeteria to eat. This was my weak/low day and nothing looked good to eat. We sat by four students who did not speak very much English. They were very kind and shared their watermelon with us. We did communicate a few things like Jackie Chan, who had a boyfriend and girlfriend, and that one guy was very muscular. Ha! Some things you can just use universal sign language. Also, a brother of the faith sat with us. He had even more limited English, but he knew how to say, “Jesus loves you!”
We got some different types of ice cream treats on our way back, and Lud and I managed to get it all over us. They were very tasty though! We read through the next chapter of John and then fell into bed for a nap. This afternoon, Lud and Evan went to play badminton with Johnny and his friends, but the girls were all busy so Elena, Kayla, and I sat around talking. This night was Lud’s and my anniversary so we cleaned up and went a Western restaurant called Rio. We eat steak, cheesy potatoes, calamari, and seafood pasta. All of it tasted wonderful! (I think we both needed a different kind of food than we had been having.) When they found out it was our anniversary, they gave us a free scoop of ice cream and took our picture to put on the restaurant website. After dinner, we walked around the shopping district we were in and then headed back to the apartments. We had a wonderful anniversary!
The other half of the group made it back around the same time, and we shared about our nights. They had been to a barbeque restaurant where you cook your food on a grill top in front of you. Then they rode the large electronic animals around a park. Most of the time kids ride these so they received plenty of stares!
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