Day 94 – Baking Store!
We did a video chat with Seth’s family and
Kadie’s family and Rachel, Evan and Alisa and CJ for a little while this
morning. Being here in China is hardest
around the holidays. It is amazing to
almost be there though through the blessing of technology that we have to talk
face to face.
Leo picked us up today for the Children’s
class because Gilbert had a wedding to attend.
The class went well. Zenia wasn’t
able to be there either, but they got another woman who teaches English at
another university here in Ji’nan and she has a 7 year old daughter who was there
also. Helen had to make sure that she
was sitting next to David while we were doing some lessons and singing. Leo then took us to lunch and brought us
home. He doesn’t speak much English, but
he does speak some.
David took a nap and then we rode the bus
to Wayne and Libby Clarke’s place. They
took us to a store that has all sorts of baking supplies. It is a fairly new concept in China to bake
and so it is hard to find things like shortening, baking powder, powdered
sugar, and brown sugar that is really brown sugar and not just sugar with
molasses in it, and measuring cups and things like that. We were at the store for about 45 minutes
just making sure that we had all the things we would love to have to bake
with. They did have a bunch of spices,
but the labels were mostly in Chinese so I couldn’t tell if one of them was
cloves or not, the only one that I haven’t been able to find here. Cinnamon is also hard to find, but one of the
other BYU teachers found a large supply of it in her apartment and shared some
with me. Wayne and Libby ended up buying
a new toaster oven for their apartment, an early Christmas present for Libby
from Wayne. I bought an oven thermometer
for mine and that makes me feel more confident with the toaster oven I
have. All the numbers are erased off of
it and what is left are in Chinese, so this will be a big help.
We walked back to their place and chatted
for a while longer. Then we took the bus
back and stopped at McDonald’s for a quick supper and then came home. I make three pumpkin pies and one banana
cream pie for our BYU Teachers' Potluck Thanksgiving Dinner tomorrow.
1 comment:
You forgot to mention the bus ride over to the Clarke's. When we got on a nice young man dressed in a suit and tie got up and offered his seat to me. I've learned not to refuse. He said he was taught by his kindergarten teacher to respect and treat kindly older people. He then started asking us questions in English. We talked all the way to the where we got off. He is a senior in Shandong Univ. and was going to a job interview near where we were going. He and his friend, who was also dressed up, took us to the campus entrance where we needed to go and then walked BACK to their interview! So kind, when I would expect them to have been so concerned about getting to their interview instead!
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