So this morning, unfortunately, we have a meeting with all the other English teachers and our Chinese advisors and deans. I think (and hope) Sunday meetings are a rare exception. Our church meets at 1pm at another campus we hope to be able to take a taxi and get there for at least part of the meetings. It will be made up of 5 of us BYU china teachers and a few other "expats". We'll fill you in on the details of that as we learn them.
Last night we (the Kimballs and us) went out to dinner again--this time without the accompaniment of any Chinese speakers--and ordered just from seeing the pictures of the various dishes. I ordered what looked safe, vegetables (edible pea pods, onion, garlic... so good!) and some bread items... Linda was hungry for a "meat" dish I knew we were in trouble but we ordered it anyway. So the veggies and breads were great (no butter for the bread though) the bread was served with two bowls of mushed up hot pepper stuff. The "meat" dish was a sizzling pot of zesty stew. I dove in with my chopsticks and found it was all boney structures, smothered in a hot pepper sauce with some other slimy stuff. I moved one of the boney things to my small eating plate, changed my mind and opted for the safer bread and veggies! oh yes we had a bottle of sprite! ah, so tasty!!
The Kimballs and we live only 1/2 mile apart, but what a 1/2 mile.. we will send some picks, to get to their apartment area we have to walk thru a dirty street of filled with hot food venders along both sides of the street, all with lots of folks sitting on anything handy, chowing down, face inches away from their bowls. Actually some of the food looks pretty good... we have been warned, however, that due to poor sanitary condions we should avoid eating from the street vendors.
As we were riding on the bus Friday to the new campus (we will have to send you some pics), the new campus is amazing: a square mile of new soviet style buildings in a beautiful country setting, mountains to the south of campus. It was raining and cloudy so will send some decent pics later. Our lead professor (professor Hoe, speaks very good English) told us that our teaching job will be very easy, the most important thing, he emphasized, was to stay healthy. He said that a couple of times.. To me the message was.. watch what you eat!
We got to see our brand new classrooms. All with about 50 desks, computerized, chalkboards and screen for projection, but with ceiling fans and no AC. All the floors are a marble type material, very nice but extremely slippery when wet, however. Most windows including the hallways, open. so no AC. But we did notice the we have Casablanca type ceiling fans. More to come on the teaching facilities.
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all buildings have AC hiden in the celing,except building B.
added , i don't know what does the phrase 'new soviet style' mean, but i can tell you that there must be something wrong of your understanding about our new campus.the old campus is built in 1960s so the building is in soviet style, but the new campus is designed by chinese, we have a wish to merge the campus into the settings of the beautiful qin mountains to make them a wholely sense ,so that the new campus will be considered a natural part of the mountains and the blue sky ,and for that reason it is colored blue and grey and seemed without any technical detail outside but strong trunk .i'm not quite sure whether this is what you mean by
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