Too many adventures to write about. Boy do we feel up against the learning curve here. The language barrier is something else, but the people are heartwarming. We went on a hike up Laoshan Mountain. Waterfalls and Daoist carvings on the stones. We went to the paralympic sailing venue yesterday and they were jumping around to take pictures of the foreigners..."us." One little girl handed us torches she had made out of construction paper and wanted us to hold them in a photo. She kept saying, "one world, one dream." Anyway, it is funny to stand out because you have blond hair....only for a few more weeks. Every store is an adventure. Friday night we went to TaiDong where they have an outdoor market at 5:00 p.m. It is a walking street--no cars--a million people selling their wares and all kinds of street food that looked interesting and scary both. Some of the smells were outrageous. We ate at Pizza Hut where building a salad is a work of art for the Chinese. Photos to come. We were able to go to the closing ceremonies for the paralympic sailing venue and the show was fantastic. It was on our campus here. Photos to come (from our neighbor who has the "good" camera). We were able to get our talks out of the way in church today and that was a new experience. I cut out 3 pages and Terry who knows how many because it takes so long for the translation after each sentence. It is hard to keep a train of thought going, but we had so many tell us how spiritual it was. On to lesson plans for the week. We love and miss our family. The days speed by and we are exhausted every night.