Nimenhao!
We’re three days out from departing Baoding and making our final touring journey to Hong Kong. This week has been eventful and filled with last classes, exams, goodbyes, pictures, Children’s Day festivities, packing, and last suppers. We even ran into Samantha at QLH (a change of her plans meant that we get to see her one more time before leaving – yay)!
We’ve received multiple gifts of thanks from the primary and junior middle schools on campus as well as from boss man at QLH and some individual teacher friends. Earlier this week, the primary school took us out to a really delicious lunch and we had a great time hanging out with most of the primary school teachers and Li Laoshi. And last night, we had our “last supper” with Enkui and his family before we spent the evening together in a typical Chinese park soaking up the communal love and dancing fun that is a unique Chinese experience and one that we will sorely miss.
Instead of narrating a week of events, here are some of my favorite pictures from the week:
P6-3:
Fifth grade notes (the top one drew what I drew on the board that day and the bottom note drew one of the games we played frequently):
“Bey-bey”:
Love notes from fifth grade:
Selfie with fifth graders:
P5-1:
This is a camera with a picture of Alyssa Laoshi inside plus a note from the student underneath that – how creative!:
Lots of girls from one class signed this:
Special letter from a fifth grader:
Chinese fortune tellers:
P5-5:
J1-3:
J1-5:
P6-2:
P6-4:
P6-6:
Selfies with sixth grade boys:
P6-1:
P6-2:
Video compilations I made of the Children’s Day performances Thursday and Friday –
Kindergarten:
Primary:
Art Classes:
We will spend the rest of this weekend packing, cleaning, and saying goodbyes and then we’re off to Hong Kong. My next post will probably be when we’re no longer in mainland China, so join us in saying farewell to Baoding.
Thank you for reading and until next time,
Alyssa
Alyssa in China 