Wondering and Wandering

Setting up the classrooms




























Brian, Louisa, Sidney, Curtis, Becky, Evan and Leslie after Open House



Tuesday was a busy, busy day.... we started to transform the offices into a school. No mean feat. There were lots of trips to the local stores to find storage containers, double sided tape to attach things to the walls, etc, etc,etc. The day also include a trip into Dalian to a government clinic to get health exams so that we can apply for business visas. Leslie, Evan, Curtis and I were accompanied by Ying Li and spent a long time waiting to be poked, electroded, x-rayed
and examined along with a million foreign and local students. That was an adventure in medicine and bureaucracy!!!


The work on classrooms continued into Wednesday and lo and behold, by Wednesday noon the rooms were looking like classrooms. Wednesday at 4 p.m., parents and children arrived for an Open House. What a wonderful community!

Mr. Wu was very happy with the Open House and took us into Dalian to a food carnival. It was yet another adventure in eating that included Leslie and I trying cooked silk worms. You pop the whole worm into your mouth,crunch and then suck the inside out and spit out the exoskeleton. Yum. Ying Li introduced us to the taste treat and says they are very nutritious. Just for that, I had two! It was a riotous and fun evening with an amazing spirit of staff comraderie.