September 2nd - 4th

Today Brian woke up with a terrible cold. He was really frustrated because today he starts teaching two writing classes. He slept most of the morning and felt well enough to go to class. Fortunately, he had prepared his lessons earlier in the week. He made it through the classes fine. He really enjoyed teaching the classes. The students were very friendly and responsive. Both classes, however, commented that he had a cold. Oh, well.

While Brian was at school, Lugene took a taxi to WalMart. She did this all by herself. Brian was very impressed that she would do this. She just handed the taxi driver a card with WalMart’s address on it. When she had finished shopping, she found another cab and showed him a card with the hotel’s address on it. She made it back without any problems.

September 3, 2009

Today, Nick, one of the people who works in Toby’s office, took us to a giant electronics mall. It was a whole street of electronics stores. The store we went in was like a three-story warehouse. The Chinese rent space by the foot and have all these little stalls where they sell everything imaginable.

We bought a printer and a splitter so we can both use the Internet at the same time. Since all the instructions were in Chinese, it took me all afternoon to get everything to work. After many attempts, I finally got everything working. Our neighbor brought us some pot stickers for supper. They were really good.

September 4, 2009

Today Lugene met with her school contact. She will start teaching next Monday. She will have a class on Monday, Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday. She will also have one lecture per month. She and I both spent the day preparing for next week’s lessons.
In the evening we went out to dinner with the Sorensons.