My adventures staying with a family in China

I just wanted to say that this weekend with the family was so much fun! They were the nicest people, and took really good care of us. We got to the house and the mom was making dinner, so we got to kind of see how dumplings were made! I even got to help make a couple, and they laughed at how horrible I had made mine, but it was a lot of fun helping! We laughed the whole time. Dinner was amazing! Guess what?? I tried octopus! eww...it was not my favorite, but they put it on my plate, so i ate it..The rest of dinner was delicious though. We had chicken wings, fruit salad, crawdads, tons of fruit, octopus, and dumplings. The dumplings were the best thing I've ever tasted, but I was so scared to eat the crawdads..like i chopped off their heads with scissors, and peeled off their shell, with my fingers..!!! It was so disgusting mom...i didn't think i could eat it! i felt like it was still alive, but they weren't that bad. The mom kept putting more and more food on our plates! she was like we need to get you fat, eat it all! so, we really did almost eat it all! after dinner we played hide and seek with the kids, and some other Chinese games that they taught us, it was a lot of fun being with the little girls. there were two 13 year olds and an 8 year old. so it reminded me of playing with Madison, except Madison is so much more mature than these little girls! After the games we had a snack, even though we were still so full! we had yogurt and fruit which was delicious, (so we went and bought some more yogurt for us!) and then we went to bed. We had our own room, which was nice, and the mom came in and brought us water before bed, they were so nice! I loved talking with the girls! The mom didn't know English, only the girls.

When we woke up in the morning we had the best breakfast ever! It was a bunch of different pastries and more fruit! they fed us so much food. lol after that we went and played tennis! haha it was embarrassing cause we were terrible..the dad was playing and he showed us some tips, and after that, we went to the beach! We just sat and relaxed there for awhile. it was really nice. we just talked and got to know the girls better. it was funny cause people showed up while we were playing tennis so they came to hang out. so there were like 4 girls and a little boy and the mom and a teacher from our school. well after the beach we went and ate again! we had lunch at a Korean place, which wasn't my favorite, but still pretty good. After lunch we dropped everyone off and then went to where the dad worked, he owns 2 KTV's, which is like a karaoke place? so while one girl had keyboard lessons, Sarah and I sang our hearts out in our very own VIP room..haha. I lost my voice from singing so much! It was a lot of fun. We went home after that, but they want to hang out again next weekend, they said they want to take us to the island that's really close to here? so we might go do that next weekend, I'm not sure! I had so much fun with them! I didn't get pictures cause i forgot my camera in the room, but they took some so i will have them email me some, or take more pics next time i see them!