This morning we woke up super early! After we ate breakfast, we headed off to the Xi’an boarding school. Savanna, Sabrina, and Donny all had presentations to give. Donny and Savanna were really nervous. We finally arrived at the beautiful Bodi School and we were warmly welcomed by the students and faculty. We were ushered into a room where the directors exchanged gifts, and the school held a welcoming ceremony. Afterwards, the Chinese students along with all of us were led into a room where we could do our activity: DNA Bracelets. It was really hard to instruct the students because of the language barriers; however, we managed and we even had some time left to talk to the students. After exchanging e-mails, we then headed to lunch in the school teacher’s dinning lounge. Following lunch, we visited the school’s world class gym for many rounds of table tennis (Ping-Pong). China’s Olympic team and other near by countries go to that gym to train for professional table tennis. Hardly anyone was keeping score, or even playing by the rules. Next, we sat in on a Biology class. The students preformed an experiment, and after that we had a Chinese culture lesson. We learned about shadow puppets, waist drums, and even learned how to say “You are really great!” in Chinese. It was time to depart for today. We did some quick shopping, and then we went to dinner. The dinner was a cook your own food style. It was a super fun dinner. We then headed back to the hotel for free time. Everyone decided to go to Dairy Queen and Wal-mart across the street, and then we came back and fell asleep.
Donny and Norman
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