Day 8

I failed to mention yesterday that there were LOCUSTS at dinner! LOCUSTS! I ate one...I mean, I had to do it so I could say I did!

Today was pretty mellow. We had breakfast, then a big long work block with our partners, then lunch, a museum tour, a calligraphy lesson, more work time, dinner and then a game of "basketball" broke out. Apparently I'm really good at calligraphy...? The calligraphy student who was teaching me and Ren Yan and Ying were all like "ooh, ahhh, Megan...so good!" and I tried really hard to crawl inside my skin to escape the attention. But it was pretty cool to be good at something. I quite enjoyed that. The basketball game was fun and funny to watch.

Ren Yan drew me a little map of how to get to a fabric store in Jinan. I think when I get back I'm going to try to find it before bed. We'll see, though. It might be closed. Shoot, I hadn't thought about that...