We have so many pictures and so many stories and I will try to post a bunch of them in the days to come. I couldn't write in China because of security reasons and so we are now safely back in Thailand. Our plane just came in earlier tonight. Our time there was packed full of many experiences and memories ranging from having yak butter tea in a Tibetan Village, to Houser eating duck brain with chopsticks.
One of the hardest things is that we dropped off some of our best friends fom the NE there and tried to help them look for a house and get adjusted. Obviously we couldn't help much with translation, but we wanted to be with them.
Communication was a big problem because hardly anyone speaks English. We often found ourselves wanting to speak Hindi because somehow in our minds it's what we speak when people don't understand us. One of the funniest things was that Houser got his widow's peak shaved off on accident because the barber thought he didn't want it. We hardly know any Mandarin at all, pretty much, thank you, and hello.
When we first got to China, the taxi driver brought us to a place to eat and the entire menu was in Chinese. Well we were in China, but we were hoping for a little English, or at least some pictures. Houser finally resorted to flapping his wings like a chicken to show that we wanted some chicken. Then we got up and looked what was on other people's plates and pointed to that. We were a source of great entertainment there for everyone and laughed a lot. We met some of our Chinese friends later that night and so for the rest of the trip we had excellent translation.
It was an incredible time and I don't know even where to begin describing it. Again, I will post many pictures soon.
