This and That

So we finally made it to the weekend! This has been an off-the-charts busy week for us, not to mention the day of sickness for me. Thursday and Friday were both 10-12 hour days--not teaching all that time, but having to be "on" in the lecture hall or one-to-one's with students. We returned to the restaurant where I had imbibed the suspect tea--this was last night for "dinner." I was already cranky and tired and I was fairly certain this place was not on its "A game," but we went nonetheless. The menu offered some western food--"pizza" and "spaghetti," although you can imagine this was more of an interpretation than an exact representation...anyway, our whole team was there and our leader ordered a couple pizzas and then a bunch of Chinese food...sadly, it took nine of the waitresses to come tell us that they were out of pizza...there were more people serving us than were in our group--i guess we were the biggest show in town :) so we ended up eating several Chinese dishes and our leader ordered a steak for the table...i did not drink the tea :) This weekend we have a few scheduled activities and then some down-time, which is much needed. Tomorrow morning we will visit a house--the same house we visited last Sunday...if you squinted you would think you were in a house in the USA. Hymns, choir (and robes no less!), a bulletin, and a similar format...only with some fun Chinese differences :) Anime' cartoon figures decorating the screen for the lyrics for the songs, giant AC units scattered around...and people who were very curious about us...last weekend one of our teammates (who is a former male model and very handsome) had almost a flash mob aorund him outside of the house wanting to take pictures with him...we got a good chuckle out of it (and took some pix oursleves)...perhaps you have seen some of them? Hard to know what you are seeing but I suppose we will explain a lot when we return. OK we have a meeting now so I have to run. All is well-the kids are great and in Jax and we come home in two weeks! Cheers to you all!