Day 75
David had classes this morning. I got laundry and dishes done and then worked
on stuff for my classes. We met at the canteen
for lunch. The free teacher buffet was
bringing out hot food and we were very surprised because they don’t usually do
that (alas, it is usually cold when we get there). We hurried and got our plates and then just
after we sat down, we see lines of students being brought in. We supposed that they were having a “college
day” for the High School Students and brought them here for lunch. We know they weren’t university students because
they all had uniforms on. We also saw an
“albino” Chinese boy.
We did things around here until about 3:30
and then we left to go to Kathy Hong’s apartment. She is a Chinese woman that goes to meetings
with us. She holds Canada and Chinese passports
and therefore, she can choose to go with us in the Ex-pats group or with the
Chinese Nationals. I think because she
hopes to someday move back to Canada or the US, she wants to keep up her
English skills and meet with us. (She
does know of Chinese Nationals that are LDS in Ji’nan, but that is all she can
say and all we can know.) Her son,
Hanson, was baptized last year in the pool that is in the Hanlin Hotel where we
meet. David is her one of her home teachers. Her mother was a famous Chinese opera star
and they have a baby grand piano in their apartment. (It boggles the mind to
think how they got it up ten flights of stairs in their building, but they
did! No elevator!) She
invited us to come play the piano and then have dinner with them.
Dinner was dumplings, very good ones. We played some music, but just as we were
thinking we needed to leave, Kathy’s husband, Simon, came home. He is not a member, but allows Kathy to
freely believe. We had not met him
before so it was nice to meet him. Simon
is very personable and knows English quite well. It turns out he went to college in the US at….
Winona State!!!! He knew where all the places
were that I knew in Southern Minnesota!
We were both amazed at how small a world it can be sometimes! We finally had to pull ourselves away because
the buses stop running at 9 p.m. and we would have had to try and get a taxi
after that. It was a great visit.
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