West Lake

(re-post from jenderle.modevia.com)
Today we got to see some parts of our new culture. We started out with breakfast, which was much bigger than a normal continental breakfast. A little different than American breakfast, with noodles and rice and dim sum, and other foods. It was very good and interesting enough, the thing I liked the least was the corn on the cob, very hard. After breakfast we attended church here in Hongzhau. There are some pictures in the new album. It is, one of the biggest christian churches in China, if not the largest. We got to talk to several people after the service. Everyone is extremely friendly, and is so excited to talk to Americans. All the children come up to practice any English the know, even if it is only hello.After lunch where we got to practice our Chinese in ordering food, we headed down to West Lake. We spent the rest of the day at the lake walking around and taking a boat ride. You must look at the pictures to see this beautiful place. We ended the evening at a restaurant, we got our own room and had excellent service with 4 sometimes serving us at the same time. One of our watresses spoke very good English. She was one of the happiest servers I've ever seen, shown by the way she litterally walk-bounced into the room. We had almost every type of food, chicken, pork, shrimp, fish, asparagus, and more. And the cost came out to about $6 a person, you can barely eat at McDonalds for that price. I will try and put comments on the photos within the next couple of days.
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