Random Pictures

The weather lately has been pretty bad here. It has rained for about four days. We are told that rain is actually pretty rare in this area. Today, at 1:00 p.m., the skies got very dark and it poured for about a half hour. One teacher in my office from the Philippines had never seen anything like that before; he was seriously scared that Armageddon was occurring.

We made it through, though, and I realized that I haven't posted any pictures in a few days. Here is a random assortment.
Here are a few shots of Professor Evelyn paying attention to oral hygiene.

The other night, a group of teachers found out about a bowling alley in town. It was a lot of fun. It was fairly inexpensive, so we will surely do it again. It is also nice that you can bring your own beer to the bowling alley. In the picture, from left to right, are Rod (from New Zealand), Lewis (from Zambia), Martin (from Australia), Amy (from China (Martin's girlfriend); Jenny (from New Zealand), and Jane and me (both from St. John Medical Center in St. Louis).

After bowling Jane, Jenny and I met other people at a club called Las Vegas. Here is a shot of the scene. Jenny and Jane are drinking a mixture of tea and liquor, which is actually a pretty weak drink. The other girl in the picture is a teacher at another school. You can see the large fruit basket on the table, which is a common purchase at bars. Usually what happens at a club is that the foreign teachers get together, and then some Chinese guy buys all of our drinks in order to hang out with us. At least that is what happened this night.

Here is Jane buying rice. We go to this store because it is the only one that has brown rice; every other store just has many varieties of white rice (brown rice is seen as dirty here, so it is not very popular). We bought roughly 9 or 10 pounds of rice for about $3.00.

Here is a shot of Dan holding up some bagged chickens' feet. This bag costs about $1.25. We did not buy it.

It has not been to hard to change from a very large house to a very small apartment. Usually, no matter where we are, the kids are only a few feet away. In this instance, when Jane was trying to watch television, they were only a few inches away.

Here is Evelyn, again wearing some random composition of clothes.

Etain, looking sweet and innocent (as she does from time to time).

Gakie sent some packages which we received the other day, which included birthday gifts for Dan and other gifts for the girls. Here are the kids tearing into the packages. It is always a treat when they arrive. (Sorry, this would not load straight).

Dan loved his Anakin Skywalker shirt. The girls liked all of their presents as well.

Well, that has been what has been going on in our lives. It is late here, and I have some new classes in the morning. I am now going to teach math in the Chinese section as well. I just got my book yesterday, and it is some pretty high level stuff. Hopefully it goes well enough. Adios.