Valentine's Day "Fishing"

Valentine's Day came a day early for me this year since I'm in the east. On Saturday, the school organized a fishing trip for whomever wanted to join in. 25 or so students went and I was the only teacher. We followed Uncle Jon on our bikes to a fish farm several miles outside of town. We passed through some pretty remote villages and rode along the Yu Long River for awhile. The fishing consisted of dropping a hook with lettuce into crystal clear stocked ponds of fish. Of course, noone caught anything with a rod, but a few people were able to corner some fish and catch them with a net. They also took a seine through one pond to round up some fish to cook. It was really just more of a day of relaxing and enjoying the scenery, which was incredible. Here are a few pictures...(click to enlarge- the first pic is my favorite since ive been in China. The others are Eric fishing, woman cleaning our catch, Uncle Jon and woman with fish in net, student biking through village, and Me and Eric at the Yu Long). I've also had some complaints that I don't have any pictures with me in them. Well, I promise you the next three posts will have plenty. Most of the pictures with me in them are on the students cameras, so once they e-mail them to me I can post more. But now, everytime somone wants to take a picture with me I make them take another with my camera so I can show all you guys.

Since I was the only teacher on the trip, I had somewhat of celebrity status, or Eric called me 'everyone pet'. I probably had to pose in over 50 different pictures with people throughout the day. Now I know what sai ge Mei Guo ren means from the girls saying it all day. The girls were looking at their camera and I was looking at mine in these pictures. Here is me with Charmine and Grace, me and Yalonde, and me and Ted (or Barney, I think he might've changed his name).