9/5
Today we had a couple of options. Either hang out around campus with some of the Chinese students and find something constructive to do, or drive another few hours on the bus with Mr. Blow my horn at everything on the road to get to a place that creates elaborate kites and stone prints. Needless to say, most students staid.
Hanging out with the Chinese students was a lot of fun. Some of them spoke enough English that we could get by communicating. First we hiked up the mountain that was directly behind our dorms. I can’t remember it’s significance but on the top was an awesome view. Also on the mountain was a gigantic Buddha statue. We all took a countless number of pictures. The students were very happy and excited that we were there, it felt really cool. There’s a guy named Li who is a lot of fun and he taught me some Chinese as we walked.
After we got down the mountain we had lunch at the university cafeteria. The students asked us what we wanted to eat and we weren’t sure so I told them to all order their favorites. The meal was very good! Everything tasted awesome.
Afterwards we all walked around town to go and get art supplies and drop by a internet café. There I showed all the students a bunch of pictures of my friends, family and home, then some of them did the same. On the way home we walked through their “Shandong Normal University”. I thought the word normal was kind of odd. It was the university where students study different subjects, primarily education.
For dinner, among many things, we had my new favorite meat, octopus!
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