yesterday we visited the second and third campuses for guilin university. during the day we met with three classes. each class was 1 1/2 hours long. the first class the students taught us chinese games like jumping over eight bamboo sticks that eight students (four on each side) move in a rythm and chinese jump rope. then we taught them some american dances like the chicken dance and they LOVED it. the second class taught us about important chinese holidays and i learned about the dragon boat festival on may fith. the festival involves crews of twenty men racing in boats that have dragon head decorations on the front of the boat. it is an honor to win, and the winner gets not money but a head of a pig. we also got to practice colligraphy and i love writing the characters although i am not very good at it. what amazes me is how the students write text messages with characters with so few keys on their cell phones. our afternoon class was taught by japanese majors who made traditional food for us and taught us how to make sesami dumplings. after that class we had dinner and then went back to the hotel to shower and get ready to go to our evening party at campus number three. the chinese students loved the party, especially the american dancing. -judith
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