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July 17, GXUN

After I woke up and got ready for the day, I taught my class. We discussed many different things and I can see their English improving. For afternoon activity, it was my turn to just monitor all the class rooms, which was nice. I got to spend alot of good time just talking to the team leader, and it was really dope. After the afternoon activity, I played badmittion* with a bunch of students. I was about to go to dinner, but was informed someone from America was coming for a couple days and we were having a big dinner around 8. So I waited. Our friend, a nurse from Cali, finally arrived and we went to dinner. Typical huge Chinese meal. Tonights specialty: duck**. It was amazing with this little sweet sauce they had next to it. After dinner our team and our friend went for a walk through the woods and went and just talked in this amazing little spot. On our walk back we walked along the lake. I had just grabbed a piece of bamboo to play with as we were walking, but on the path there was a snake. I courageously vanquished the snake with my bamboo, and all was well. Went back to the room, and quickly fell asleep.

*China fact 132: The Chinese LOVE badmittion, basketball, and ping pong, and they are amazing at them. I've really taken up badmittion and hope to play more back home. Such a sweet game

**China fact 83: When serving anything, it is already cut into bite size pieces, since they don't use any cutlery. So imagine taking half a cooked duck, then just cutting it by a 2"x2" grid. That's how you serve poultry: cut into squares, with the bones. So when you pick a piece, it will almost always have fun. You then just spit the bone out onto a plate, or if your feeling savy, pop your chopsticks into your mouth and pull the bone out.