Shunsheng Wenzhou

Well, I jinxed myself by saying that no one had been in the hospital yet, Elise had to go in to get fluids and antibiotics. We think she drank some water in her bath, because she threw up and had diarrhea all night. (Everyone else was fine and we had all eaten the same food.) She continued to throw up all day and the following night, so that 36 hours later, she needed some IV fluids and she was running a slight fever so the doctor ...

... and questions for us, as we’ve walked through the big cities. Everyone there asked us, "Are all these kids yours?" “You have 4 children?!” “These are 4 children from one family?!” along with comments like, “Oh, we’re not allowed to have more than one here. What country are you from? Do they allow you to have that many children?” In China ...

... that blew sparks and the kids enjoyed setting those off over the river to celebrate the Moon Festival. They don’t really set off firecrackers for the Moon Festival, it was just his excuse to get them for the kids. (They set them off at New Year’s in February.) It’s against the law to set them off in the downtown area, but since my relatives live outside of town, it’s ok there as long as they let the ...

My mom's relatives (first cousins and their families) were so 'keqi’, generous and kind. They invited us over for lunch and dinner, cooking fabulous 17 course meals! We got to see my greatgrandfather’s house (where my grandfather grew up, and my mom came to visit when she was a child). The house is outside of Qingtian city about 10-15 minutes ...

... 3). The whole country was off from Oct 1-8. We planned to stay in Qingtian until the holiday was over, to avoid all the crowds traveling at the same time. There was supposed to be 200 million people traveling over that week. We figured avoiding that would be a good idea!


My grandparents’ hometown, Qingtian, is known for being a mountainous area with carvable rock. Here’s an ...

... on the board. The desks are everywhere and chairs are usually upturned. I walked in today and someone had shaken a pepsi bottle and sprayed it EVERYWHERE. The chalkboard, and every single desk was sticky and grimy.

Tim's sister-in-law, also a teacher, made a comment saying it's nice to know grade 8's are the same worldwide :P

Anyway, here are some pictures of the school, our rooms and nearby.

... that looked like it was from Happy Feet. Two steps later I realized it was missing an arm, so I ran back and took the first thing that wasn`t broken and was relatively clean which happened to be a monkey (w0ot!)

There was a many following us around the park and trying to get his kid to say `hello` to us. The kid was not amused.

... ya in two days" and left us alone. We were the only ones in the entire building and we felt completely alone. All I wanted to do was sleep and I thought I’ll save the fretting for the next morning. But when I went to lie down, there was another shock. The bed was as hard as a rock. It felt like sleeping on a box spring. We didn’t sleep much that night. We both kept waking up and every time we did it was ...

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