Day 25
Eva planned to spend some time with use
today to help us find some things that we haven’t been able to find yet in the
grocery stores, salt being one of them.
There was some here from the previous apartment dweller, but I was
almost out of it. We went to a huge
outdoor market and found some great deals on some fruits and vegetables. We finished our shopping around lunchtime and
went into Jingren Pie for lunch (they have a fruit salad there that is divine!)
and while we were there, the rain started.
It came down pretty strong for quite a while. Eva was helping David with some questions
that he had about teaching his students and when we were done, we had hoped
that the rain would let up. It kept
coming down hard for about 15-20 more minutes and finally let up enough that
David and Eva, who had the umbrellas, could make it to the car and then came
and picked me up with the heaviest of the groceries. That is the most rain I have seen here in Ji’nan
since we came.
The afternoon was spent getting lessons
ready for next week. At 4 p.m., we had a
gathering of all the foreign language teachers from 3 of the Campuses of
Shandong University at our apartment complex.
Lots of good food. I made BBQ
spare ribs. Several of the leaders and
people that we work with in the Foreign Languages department came also. In total there were about 35 of us here. David brought out his guitar because the Deputy Director had brought his 9 year old son who is learning classical
guitar and had him play some. Then David and I sang some songs. Morgan, a guy from
France that teaches French (imagine that!!), was so excited to have another
guitar player here, that he ran up to his apartment and brought his guitar down
and then we had a real jam session! A
good time was had by all!
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