Hello again to whoever is reading this. It is another beautiful day here in China. The weather is a pristine as it could ever get. Slight overcast, 70 degrees, small breeze, and just the right amount of humidity. I hope it stays this way for a while but most likely it won't.
This past week we just stayed in Hefei. We got to know the place a lot better and explored the downtown area a little better. It is a huge city we found out, over 4 million people and it just keeps getting bigger. We went to a market the was giant to begin with then found out it also hand a huge underground labyrinth of little shops. We found some cool stuff for real cheap. China make Mexico look like an overpriced department store.
For lunch we went to KFC. I really don't know why but we did it to see what it was like. We had some falafel like wraps and pineapple shish-kabab but it all came to about 6 dollars. That is very expensive. Later on in the afternoon we ate at a street vendor wok type place and had some amazingly good spicy beef noodles for 3 yuan, about 35 cents. We will eat more of the small Chinese restaurant instead of the American fast food. Healthier, tastier, and a lot cheaper.
We hung out on walking street which is kind of like the Vegas strip but just stores instead of casinos. and then went back to our school. we walked to the local spa and all had massages for an hour. It is a nice fancy place and it cost around 5 dollars each time you go. It was my first time paying for a massage and it felt great but I like Aundi's massages a lot better. They really work your knots and sore muscles hard here and at times can be very painful.
Teaching at the school is still going great. the kids are learning and they are still completely crazy. They are quite the rowdy bunch of first and second graders. We teach them Monday through Friday for 2 hours in the afternoon and then the Elementary kids for 40 minutes a day sometime in the morning Monday through Friday. This gives us the weekends to ourselves which makes it very nice. We are going to do some more traveling with our weekends. Traveling is a little expensive here. Nothing compared to traveling in the states though. But we can't go everywhere that we would like to go to. But we will be able to see a lot of pretty things while we are here. we have already seen so many amazing things and look forward to our next big weekend in two weeks to go somewhere. It is still up in the air on where but we will know by next week.
We are doing great. we finally kicked that cold that we got in St.George before we left and We have been running on the track that is 50 yards from our door. I'm hoping that they fill the pool sometime soon. It is right next to our dorms and I hate looking at a nice 50 meter indoor pool that is completely empty. I would like to do some triathlons when I get back so I'm hoping to get some training here.
Here are a few pictures as of lately and we hope you enjoy. Thank you for your consideration and for reading our blog. Hope you have a wonderful week.
With regards,
Ted & Aundi
This past week we just stayed in Hefei. We got to know the place a lot better and explored the downtown area a little better. It is a huge city we found out, over 4 million people and it just keeps getting bigger. We went to a market the was giant to begin with then found out it also hand a huge underground labyrinth of little shops. We found some cool stuff for real cheap. China make Mexico look like an overpriced department store.
For lunch we went to KFC. I really don't know why but we did it to see what it was like. We had some falafel like wraps and pineapple shish-kabab but it all came to about 6 dollars. That is very expensive. Later on in the afternoon we ate at a street vendor wok type place and had some amazingly good spicy beef noodles for 3 yuan, about 35 cents. We will eat more of the small Chinese restaurant instead of the American fast food. Healthier, tastier, and a lot cheaper.
We hung out on walking street which is kind of like the Vegas strip but just stores instead of casinos. and then went back to our school. we walked to the local spa and all had massages for an hour. It is a nice fancy place and it cost around 5 dollars each time you go. It was my first time paying for a massage and it felt great but I like Aundi's massages a lot better. They really work your knots and sore muscles hard here and at times can be very painful.
Teaching at the school is still going great. the kids are learning and they are still completely crazy. They are quite the rowdy bunch of first and second graders. We teach them Monday through Friday for 2 hours in the afternoon and then the Elementary kids for 40 minutes a day sometime in the morning Monday through Friday. This gives us the weekends to ourselves which makes it very nice. We are going to do some more traveling with our weekends. Traveling is a little expensive here. Nothing compared to traveling in the states though. But we can't go everywhere that we would like to go to. But we will be able to see a lot of pretty things while we are here. we have already seen so many amazing things and look forward to our next big weekend in two weeks to go somewhere. It is still up in the air on where but we will know by next week.
We are doing great. we finally kicked that cold that we got in St.George before we left and We have been running on the track that is 50 yards from our door. I'm hoping that they fill the pool sometime soon. It is right next to our dorms and I hate looking at a nice 50 meter indoor pool that is completely empty. I would like to do some triathlons when I get back so I'm hoping to get some training here.
Here are a few pictures as of lately and we hope you enjoy. Thank you for your consideration and for reading our blog. Hope you have a wonderful week.
With regards,
Ted & Aundi
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I'm starting to see a trend in these translations...hrrmm. Glad you are well guys. Tell Oma her comments are all skywamped. ;)
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