Fun with a fun family!

So, we have been asked by one particular teacher, since last year, if we could come to her house. Things happened and we finally got around to going over. At first I was admittedly not so excited about this. I mean it was taking up my Sunday and I really enjoy my Sundays. Plus it was going to be a huge stretch for our language.

She came and picked us up a little after 11 in the morning in her personal car. That was a first, the only vehicles we have been in here were taxis or buses. Taking a ride in a personal car was a different story. People here are not known for their great traffic behaviors so I didn't know what to expect. To sum up the experience was not so bad, I only thought we were going to hit someone just once.

Our teacher is married and has one daughter. Their daughter is so precious! She is only 4 and that worked out just fine because that is about where my language level is....a 4 year old! Ha! My oh my does she have a lot of toys too! Since she is the only child I think she has complete domain over that whole space in their apartment.  It was fun getting to play games with her and our teacher said that she could tell that I was meant to work with children. Her husband knows some English and was wanting to have a chance to practice using English so it was spent 50/50 English and non English. I felt like it was a very sucessful language day for both of us.

The family made us lunch and were the most hospitable people I have ever been with. For lunch we had 2 kinds of jiaozi (dumplings), stringed potatoes, and scrambled egg with peppers. We had a pork dumpling that was probably one of the best I have eaten and they also made some sweet dumplings, which literally were filled with sugar and steamed. They were pretty good but I couldn't eat more than 3 they were pure sugar! I also think I have consumed enough sodium for the entire month, my lips are kind of raw right now.

Here are some of the pictures with them. Enjoy!

This is a picture of one of their walls in the apartment. Yes, those are stickers. Jared called it a Milky-Way of stickers.  That will be a huge pain for someone to clean off someday.

Me and our teacher!

 The food was so delicious! By the time we sat down to eat there was 3 times as much food on that table and I am not even kidding.

This is their daughter. After lunch we went to a nearby park to play. She took her pink bunny and picked some flowers along the way. Here she is pretending she is asleep under a tree.

And, here I am with some of the many toys she kept giving to me to play with.

It was such a fun day and I am so glad we had the opportunity to spend some quality time with them. Not such a bad way to spend a Sunday after all!