Week 2
Sasha
shows his stuff in a spontaneous badminton match with some serious
competitors. Kent watches the match,
waiting for his turn to get in. The men of the group will play the Foreign
Language Department's best basketball players Sunday afternoon in an
exhibition game.
Sophie
enjoys a conversation at Thursday night's English Corner. Students
spend one or two evenings per week at English Corner, responding to
a wide range of questions from "Can you use chopsticks?" to "What do
you think of Marxist philosophy?" Next week all members of the group
will begin teaching English two nights per week.
Unable
to make much contact with his parents, a desperate Ryan tries to send
a message home via this, the China SST website--Hope you're listening,
Mom!
DuFu
Friday,
we visited the DuFu Thatched Cottage Park. DuFu was a famous 8th-century
Chinese poet who spent four years in Chengdu. Elizabeth, Ruth, Daron,
Sasha, Ben, and Kate can be seen through candles lit to honor DuFu.
Here
the group listens as our tour guide, Jenny, explains the finer points
of DuFu's life and poetry.
More images:
- Abby and Mia pause for a rest in the Park.
- The happy China SST group poses for a photo on a bridge in the bamboo-adorned DuFu Thatched Cottage Park.
- Later that day, Nick, Rachel, Kent, Matt, and Niles observe as a worker at a silk factory creates her art.
