We eat, we sing, we strip, and we kill- rats!!!

So yesterday was a very, VERY eventful day! It started out with just some web chatting with the loved ones from back home.. and it ended with the death of an unsuspecting rat!

After the web chatting Mike and I went to the supermarket to buy the most American food we could find. Jilly, our Chinese assistant teacher had cooked us a Chinese meal a few weeks prior and we had decided we wanted to return the favor.
Here we are with the entire meal! We made all kinds of sandwiches.. pb and j, bp and bananas, bp and honey, pb and cheese! and grilled cheese.. her favorite was grilled cheese!



She was very particular about the placement of the peanut butter and the bananas.. haha


These are bomb! Jelly drinks!

But these are my fav! Four circle ice cream bars!!!! MMMMMM!

So Jilly had a coupon for karaoke..aka KTV. So we went!!


Mike, of course, got really into it! Especially during, "Wannabe" by the Spice Girls.


It really is quite fun! The Chinese love to sing! haha

So for FHE we decided to play some "Strip" poker. So we got on multiple layers of clothes... even though it was incredibly hot and humid!

We decided to take multiple pictures at random parts during the game.... so here we are with obviously less clothes.. i'd like to point out that Brad looks like the naked guy in the corner.. he seemed doomed at the beggining but our lovely Emily scored herself the spot of the first loser of the night.

This was after Em got out.. and we are looking like more clothes are coming off!

Here is the winners circle! Jace won, then me and then JoEll.
And here are the losers!

And finally... here was what we did after FHE. Jace used the only butched knife we have and destroyed the nasty rat.

Look at all the bloood!! Oh man... so for those who are interested I do have a video of the entire Rat killing experience.... my favorite part is when all the girls were screaming bloody murder and about 5 of our Asian neighbors came running to our help.. and there was Jace standing there with the butcher knife and a dead rat..

Circus de Guangzhou

So we visited the circus while we were in Guangzhou.. actually that was the main reason for going. And it was AMAZING! But pictures cannot describe how great it really was so i'm posting some videos! Still much better in person.. but it was fun!

They did a lot of variations of this.. but it was really cool to see them work together and have one fly off.

This was AMAZING! These guys are crazy!!!

Again examples of their craziness... if you cant tell they bring out jump robes.. and then later (not shown) they had blind folds on and kept doing more and more insane things!!!

This is where all the animals came out and walked in a circle. It's kinda sad.. but they are cute!!

So this is what the toilet(bathroom) is like at the circus. On one side of it there are squaters and the other side has the "western toilets". This was the bathroom i used and i looked up and saw that behind me was just open. So i guess you could walk behind all the toilets and just see people going to the bathroom.. kinda weird...

Here is me and Em! We went and got ice cream before the show and found a "circus freak" preparing. So we stopped and took a picture with her!. Anyway, the circus was AMAZING!! i loved it and i'm so glad i was able to go!!

What happens in Guangzhou stays in Guangzhou.

So this was the entrance to the wonderfully NASTY "hotel" we stayed in. Mike thought he found us a good deal for us to stay in.. but when the lady started walking down this creepy alley and then up 10 flights of stairs.. we all started to feel a little sketchy.. then we walked into the "hotel" (really just an apartment they rented out rooms) emily and i couldn't handle the overwhelming smell of what can only be described as death. However, Mike thought it was a good deal and the twelve of us stayed in three bedrooms. It was a memorable night to say the least!

These were the beds we slept in...... some of the girls found blood stains and rat poop in the sheets..

This was the sink.. that drained into the water bucket...
And the water bucket was used to flush the squater...

They were cooking food outside one of the windows of one of the rooms we rented...Did NOT smell good.. Circle K.. is OK! haha Not Fruit Pops...Fruits Pop! Weird spiderman... Emily demonstrating how we wear our backpacks to prevent from getting robbed!!

Cleaning the streets of China. They do this A LOT!
Asian fashion.. gotta love it!
Cute old men were all over this fun park we found! Some sitting around and some playing games!

I love the signs you find everywhere. Classic.

Visiting the huge Pagoda we walked around forever to find!

It was next to a Buddhist temple that i didn't feel was appropriate to take pictures of, it was beautiful though!

The monk just walking around!

I love this sign!

ZHONGSHAN livin'

I'm still here in amazing China, loving every minute and waiting to teach! As you can tell by my pictures there are many things to see in China. If its not a family of four riding on their vespa.. its a guy carrying as much as possible on the back of his bike, ping pong tables, little children sitting in boats or playing in a play ground.. there are also so many pretty sites to see! And then there are my roommates! Emily, JoEll, and ME!

I'm in the CHINA!

So i have been to Hong Kong and now i am in Zhonshan, China! This is where i will be for the next 5 months. Incredible, huh?? China is AMAZING!! The Chinese are fascinated by Americans and they stare at us as we pass.. and they get really excited when we wave and say, " Ni hao" (hello). I LOVE IT!!!