Tuesday, July 22, 2008

Deep Culture

Take me out to the ball game! We are teaching baseball to our classes this week. Monday was rained out so yesterday we took the field. Chinese teachers - in fact women in general - always wear 1.5-2.5 in heels on their shoes. Very cute. That is the professional look. They wear them with dresses, pants, shorts, short shorts. The shoes are the same. So when we started to pay ball yesterday I suggested to them they run barefoot. They were scandalized. Take off their shoes in public? Never. So our running and stealing bases was called on account of fashion and my team lost.

In the hotel now is a contest for JH students who play musical instruments, sing or play piano. The place is filled with music - and very enthusiastic parents making sure they are getting their money's worth for the lessons.

The hotel staff worked on "clean glass" and "dirty glass" last night which I hope improves our dining experience greatly.

1 comment:

Marlyn said...

LOL. You are painting some hilarious scenes with very few words. Stirring up memories of our first weeks in Brazil in the 70's.