It Takes a Village

The week is finally over and it ended on a great note. Tonight I was out with some friends at Pizza Hut, which is extremely nice Italian dinning in China and other countries outside of the US. My friends and I demanded that we go to Pizza Hut and indulge ourselves in an American meal on our country's independence day.  The pizza was actually really good even though I cursed out the manager in chinese for not serving cheese pizza, the simplist of all pizzas. You essentially have to make cheese pizza before you make any other type of pizza. It really ticked me off. But besides that we had a great time. We sang the national anthem blatantly loud at the end of our meal with my host brother Jeremy. It was an amazing experience, but not near as cool as the village we visited yesterday. 

Usually we have afternoon classes from 2-5, but yesterday we went on an excursion to a village after lunch. It was very interesting. The bus dropped us off at a point where the road came to an end and we hiked about 30 minutes to the center of the village. The village was full of museums and ancient artifacts that symbolized the majesty and age of China. I was very fortunate to see this side of China and not just the big cities like Guangzhou, Zhuhai, and Hong Kong. The poeplw in this village were very nice and we had tea with the village people. They taught us how to make tea and how to drink it properly in a social environment. I made black tea (héise chá) and flower tea. The black tea was really good surprisingly. The flour tea was not so good. I can be seen making and testing tea in some of the pictures. Tomorrow morning I will go litchi picking with my host family and one of my friend's host families. I am looking forward to it. Check out the many pics. In the mean time, zàijiàn!