Hi,

 

Did you have a good weekend? I did. Moon Festival is coming. Happy Moon Festival everybody. I am very sorry that I can not be home but I am pretty good here.

 

I really do have a lot to talk about today. Since I failed to do it during weekends, I start from my Saturday. Saturday was just like usual, I went out shopping to several stores and made lots of dumplings for Sunday's party in the afternoon. Although it was 160 dumplings, it was not a hard work. We bought dumpling skins instead of making them by hands. We were very lucky to find them here in Toledo. We consumed some of them during cooking simply because they were pretty good.

 

Then Sunday came. I had a good sleep on Sunday since I had a snap which was not common at all. I bet that I have not done that for years. Then at about 5 we left for Bowling Green which is a almost college town where the Ohio States University locates. It is about 20 miles distance south of Toledo. On our way to BG, I first saw what an American farm is like. There are crops like soybeans and corns everywhere, but I did not see anybody work on them. There farms are just like ours but with more machines rather than lots of people. BG is not a big town, but you can find any big markets there which are everywhere in Toledo. There are lots of people in BG since the University is there. It is a beautiful town. Houses are stretched out. We did have some difficulty in finding Jeanne's house. Finally we located it next to the church.

 

Jeanne is a nice woman, so does her daughter Nicole who attends school in Bowling Green High as a Senior students. They have a nice Russia girl this year whose name is Irina. She is a kind and hard-working girl. Jeanne's husband Dan is a cool man who works in the church as a priest. Every students made their food, as I mentioned above I made delicious dumplings. Nicole as an American made a dessert apple pie which is my favorite, Irina made salad. Then came the German girl Maike with her host family a same year old American girl a high school freshman boy Scott who is a pretty cute and funny. They r not lucky enough since their basement got flooded during the strong storms in Ohio last month. They live in BG but in a quite low area. Jeanne's house was fine and did not get flooded. Maike has to share room with her sister during the flood. Finally the Chinese girl May from Nanjing came with her host dad and host mom only. She has several siblings who were to busy to come yesterday. She attends school in Finley OH east and south from Toledo. It is quite a distance. She was very shy and self protective and she seemed to be not quite used to here now. I was not surprised to find out that the way she use chopsticks is the same as I do. She brought fried rice which was not as good as mine :) . Maike brought some German food that I can not remember the name. We ate and talked and played game together and really had fun. Actually the most active students among them were the two American girls, Scott and me. The exchange girls  were to shy. But we really had fun. We were home at 9:30.

 

Today is PAJAMA day which means the clothes to sleep with. All students wore the sleeping clothes (or pajama) to school today. I was really fun. Tomorrow will be suit day which means I am going to wear suit, shirt, tie.

 

This is the homecoming week plus Grade 8 students visiting week plus our beautiful new football stadium Gallenger Stadium opening week. Homecoming is a fancy dance party held by the school. I am sorry that I am not able to go to the dance since it is on Saturday this weekend when I am out of town in Chicago.

 

Today I went to the basketball first training and just got home from there. I have a good coach and I hope I can have a good year! I will talk about the training more tomorrow.

 

OK, end it here today. Once again, 中秋快乐！

 

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