“A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.” ~Lao Tzu

“A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.” ~Lao Tzu



Monday, August 2, 2010

Wind-surfing, Karaoke, and Kung-fu Fighting

As I've mentioned before, we've also been taking business classes once a week in addition to our Chinese classes. For business class, we have different people come talk to us about various aspects of business in Asia. Our second speaker was a professor of Sport Management. Afterward, we all went wind-surfing. When they said "wind-surfing" on the schedule, we were all imagining going to the ocean; however, they took us to the little "lake" next to our dormitory. It was quite funny because there were signs that said "No wading or Swimming." I guess we broke the rules. Oh well. Aside from this, it was pretty fun. I guess it was for the better that we had our first wind-surfing experience at a place with minimal wind because it made it easier to learn. I was quite bad at turning directions, but I only fell into the gross water once!

Somehow, a girl named Danielle from the United States found out about us and expressed interest in meeting our group. She was really excited about meeting more Americans since she has been teaching English here for the past 4 months. We all decided to meet up with her at karaoke, a popular thing to do in Asia. Karaoke was fun, cheesy music videos and all.

One day, we had a cultural class and learned some kung-fu forms. It was more hilarious than anything...especially when we had to do pairs and perform. I'll spare you all the pictures.

1 comment:

  1. sounds like you're having a good time. I sure would like to go sing karaoke!

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