Happy Women's Day

In honor of Women's Day (which I am told is similar to Mother's Day), our school took us to this park-garden type thing last Sunday.  It was pretty fun although we spent way too much time there.  The first hour, we walked around the 8 green house type things that were filled with different kind of plants but that ended up looking pretty much the same after a while.  The second hour we walked around outside and met some very nice Chinese university students who we talked to for quite some time.  The third hour we spent staring at our watching wondering how the Chinese had figured out how to stop time.

Inside the greenhouse things. Please note the festive gold wrapping of the pole

Random large vegetables, sweet!

I thought this would be a cool picture but it's not really all that exciting.  These vines were hanging from the ceiling, WOW!

So I was totally stoked to see this Alice in Wonderland tree inside.  Upon closer inspection, it was pretty much a tree stump that had containers of little pink flowers, not so cool.

Our favorite teacher at the school, Judy

One way to make vegetables appealing

Some local Hefeians (I still haven't figured out what they call themselves) that were way too excited to see us and wanted a picture with us

By far the creepiest thing I have seen since being in China.  We at first thought that there was a little child in the snoopy costume pulling the kids around but it turned out to be a robot. WEIRD!

I'm so mean

I want this outfit

The young gentleman on the left was this guy who wanted to practice his english wish us.  He was super nice and freaking loved the NBA (you don't even know how much they love Yao Ming here), the TV show Prison Break (he kept referring to one of the actors as that man who is very handsome) and he also mentioned that he liked the show Desperate Housewives (saying that those women are very beautiful but we were much more beautiful than them, I liked this guy)

The University students.  I had an extensive conservation with a few of them that went pretty well except for the very long and awkward pauses where I had to think of something else to talk to them in their very limited English.  I got so desperate, I started telling them that in America people are usually very fat, very different from the healthy, thin Chinese (but made sure to say that our group was an exception to the typical American).  They agreed with me and said they had seen fat Americans in the movies, HA!