Day 88
We woke up to a very rainy morning. We talked with Seth and Carolyn for a little
bit before we left for Church. We were
debating whether to take a taxi or walk to the bus, but it was really wet and a
taxi came by just as we walked out the South gate of the campus, so we took
that. Much nicer!
We had four visitors from BYU Psychology
Department that are here in Ji’nan for a conference, and it was great to visit
with them. One is a Dr. Peter Chan, who
is Chinese, but now works at BYU. He was
very interested in the Skype Church experience.
They were amazed, as we have been, how strong you can feel the Spirit
there. The dinner afterward was a
wonderful affair with the extra visitors and lots, and lots of good food
again. Kathy Gao’s husband, Simon came
to eat dinner with us also. It was all
so much fun!
We took the bus home because the rain had
let up some. The walk from the bus stop
to campus wasn’t bad. We had been
contacted by the leader of the group of students that we had met a few weeks
ago at the Hanlin Hotel after Church yesterday and they wanted to come to our
place and cook some Chinese food for us and then we could make something
American for them.
We opened the door at about 5 p.m. for
them. They started coming in and kept
coming and coming and coming! In our
little place, we had over 20 young adults here!
It was wall to wall! Then we
tried to fit about 10 of us in my little kitchen! Trying to cook when we were almost tripping
over each other was fun! They were all
so polite and when they were done, all the dishes had been washed and the tables
cleaned off! They made about 15 dishes
including the dumplings! It was so fun
being with them. We showed them pictures
of our home and family. They love the
family! (P.S. family, you now have 20 new siblings, we just adopted them
all!) They wanted to hear the story of
David and me getting to know each other and getting engaged. They all loved the story. One boy made all the girls think about what
they want in a husband, though. He did
ALL the dishes!
Some of the gang in my tiny kitchen. Their favorite thing is to hold up the "peace sign." |
Preparing the fish for cooking. These guys just took over, so I stepped out of the room after showing them where things were and they did a great job! |
Starting to eat! So much food and such a tiny table. They are used to these things and we all made it work. The guy standing in the back is "Robin", the teacher of this group. |
Everyone that we could fit in the living room. There were still a few standing behind me and some in the kitchen. |
The last three left in the kitchen to cook the dumplings. |
I made chocolate chip cookies for them
(well, we can’t find chocolate chips here in China, but we substitute M&M’s
for it and they turn out just great!).
They had to take pictures of it. They
wanted the recipe. The only problem they
had was trying to find an oven. One of
the girls remembered that there is an oven at their school that they can use,
so I think they will be making chocolate chip cookies as soon as they find all
the ingredients! I received a hug from
EVERY ONE of them before they left! Such
a fun evening! We all plan to meet
again. This group gets together to
practice their English and they are doing so well! I don’t think I heard more than one or two
words of Chinese all evening. Not that
Chinese is bad, but when you want to learn something, you have to practice!!
Unfortunately, we had to tell them that
they had to leave by 8 p.m. because we had a Branch Counsel Meeting
tonight. I’m sure if we hadn’t had that,
we would have had more songs on the guitar and all of the cookies would be
gone! As it was, most of them had to
leave after just one cookie!
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