hola Canada!

This is a picture of us in our cleansuits before we entered the sterile production area last Friday. We look like oompa loompas and Micky looks like a Beastie Boy.

Anyway, we had a really exciting Saturday and Sunday this past weekend.
Saturday was one of our most exciting and long days. We planned to have a social in the evening so we went shopping all morning for snacks and music at the closest shopping centre which is a 4-level superstore that resembles Wal-Mart. The CDs that we bought were dirt cheap (my favourite, the Backstreet Boys compilation cd, was 25RMB) but we have a feeling that they are not real haha. When we returned to the factory, we found that Melody's computer had somehow contracted a virus so an error message popped up every second (literally). The factory's IT guy was nice enough to look at her computer - he didn't solve the problem but he made the error message pop-up noise go away.

In the evening, instead of having class, we had a "Canadian Chinese American hangout" time. This is because a lot of workers leave the factory on Saturday night because Sunday is their only day off. Many people return home for a day or go out and stay at a local friend's place. We invited those who weren't going out to an evening of games and singing. Apparently "My Heart Will Go On,"(everybody has seen Titanic and some of the guys even admit to crying haha) "Take Me To Your Heart" and "Yesterday Once More" is very popular here. We even had snacks and a dance circle afterwards which was hilarious. The best part was when one of our students, Toby, started popping and locking. He's a married 34 year old with an 8 year old daughter, but he is way hipper than we are. The entire evening was a lot of fun and was filled with constant laughter. I think that students are really beginning to trust us and are not afraid to be themselves around us which is pretty awesome.

Okay, it's 5pm so the internet is going to shut off..... a description of Sunday's exciting activities will have to wait :)

Hope everybody is doing well - thanks for remembering us, we can't wait to see what happens in our last 5 days here in China.