May 3rd May 4th

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Nî Hâo (Chinese for Hello, pronounced Knee How)

Wow, Anthony, our guide for these 3 weeks has planned a busy schedule full of fun and exciting stuff for us to do.

Yesterday, we woke up at 8 to go to a River Town called Wuzhen. It was an ancient town where some people still lived with a river running in between. I have never been to venice, but I imagine this is what Venice is like. There were boats running up and down between the buildings. We also learned a lot about some Chinese traditions like weddings, furniture, decoration etc. After we got back from our tour at Wuzhen, we got back to the hotel, and a few of us went down the same alley as yesterday and got some food. I have become very fond of the pineapple on a stick for 1RNB ($0.13). It reminds me of the Iowa State Fair. We were all a little tired last night so we just stayed in and played cards.

Today we had a typical mayterm day of 3.5 hours of class, except we are in China! We went to the University at 9am and had a lecture about the 5000 years of the history of China in 2 hours, a pretty good feat. We then had lunch and at 2pm we had our second day of Chinese spoken language class. At our history lesson we were minus one student who was feeling sick. At spoken language we were down to 6 of us. Not to worry, it is a food problem not a flu problem.

After class, we played basketball with Chinese students again, Shawn, Angie, Jarrett and I were 6-0 against our Chinese counterparts. There was a hoop that had a broken rim, and Jarrett put it out of its misery. We used the language that we learned to get a pick up game going with the students. After we were done playing basketball, we came back and ate and now I am here. Tonight we might check out KFC down the street.

Goodnight Ya'll, well good morning in Iowa :)

Happy Anniversary Mom and Dad!