From Terrance - May 28

The pics are Zibo Institute, and culture class.

China has been great thus far, students at Zibo welcome us and are always eager to dialogue w/ us in English and Chinese. A day in china consists of:

• morning running(6am w/ several thousand zibo students)


• shower then breakfast by 7:45


• chinese lang class from 8am-11am.


• lunch til 2:30 then culture(dance, cooking, kong fu..etc) til 4:30.


• then service learning(teaching english/american culture) til 5:30.


• dinner then study, hang with french and chinese students.

We, like so many other people, are saddened by the earthquake aftermath. Even though we aren't near the disaster area we talk to our teachers and friends about it. We and Mrs. Piletz lead a ceremony kicking off our service learning and to share kind words to the 300 students from seven different departments. We are very sad about our inability to physically go serve the people of southeast Asia. Zibo will allow us to take a week from our studies if we can find the money for the trip. They our help but we're unable.

My chinese is improving more than ever thanks to friends and my host family(who's a bank manager of 17 local banks) the father.

My most memberable moment was opening the bath room door....lol...the chinese use swaters.

I haven't talked 2 my family but I love and miss them more each day.