Dear friends and family,
We started off our morning with our regular team meeting, and we were lucky enough to have our Chinese friends, Davie and Gemi here with us.
Linda took Jasmine, Sarah, David, Hunter and I to the new campus today, (a very long, bumpy bus ride) where we met with a group of freshman students. They took us for a walk around campus, which was quite the hike in 90 degree humidity! We ate lunch with them at the university's dining hall, where we were able to learn a few new Chinese words and get to know the students better. With freshman, it is especially hard to communicate with them because they haven't had the English speaking experience that many juniors and seniors have.
The students took us to a small restaurant where we played bonding games such as whisper down the lane, in both Chinese and English. I'm sure you all can imagine how the Chinese version went! :P They treated us to mango frozen yogurt which was so yummy, and such a treat in today's hot weather. Our last activity was paper cutting, where they taught us to make snowflake-like designs, butterflies, and dragonflies. These students are so hospitable, and everyday I know I personally strive to be as giving and loving as they are.
Much Love,
Katie
As for Dave, Davie and I (Cyrus)' group, we visited factories to do business with their Maintenance Manager's. Davie is a salesman for Wurth, a German tools, fasteners, chemicals, safety products corporation. We accompanied him on his trip to two factories, one a paper factory (for cigarette packages), and one a very large beer manufacturing and packaging plant. After almost having our car ran over by an industrial truck at the paper plant where we delivered 94 bottles of spray lubricant, we safety arrived at the beer factory, which was astonishingly large. The entire plant was almost the size of Exton, Pennsylvania! Dave, Davie and I had a great time at the plant where we witnessed fermenting, bottling, and packaging of the beer. When Davie had lost his I.D. card (similar importance to a passport in China!), we walked around the entire plant many times, and in the end, our Father helped us find it in the midst of thousands of workers. As the fruits of our laboring at these two factories, Davie was able to successfully sell a large volume of lubrication oil, drill bits, and other various industrial tools and supplies. Though the day was hot and the walking was laborious, we had a great time traveling with Davie and taking advantage of this once-in-a-lifetime chance to visit a Chinese factory of such size.
Thanks for thinking of us daily,
Cyrus
We have already witnessed so many wonderful things happening here in Guilin, but your thoughts for our safety and purpose here are always so greatly appreciated. We miss you back and home, and I'm more than sure we will have so many stories for you all in a few weeks!
Much love,
Katie and Cyrus
We started off our morning with our regular team meeting, and we were lucky enough to have our Chinese friends, Davie and Gemi here with us.
Linda took Jasmine, Sarah, David, Hunter and I to the new campus today, (a very long, bumpy bus ride) where we met with a group of freshman students. They took us for a walk around campus, which was quite the hike in 90 degree humidity! We ate lunch with them at the university's dining hall, where we were able to learn a few new Chinese words and get to know the students better. With freshman, it is especially hard to communicate with them because they haven't had the English speaking experience that many juniors and seniors have.
The students took us to a small restaurant where we played bonding games such as whisper down the lane, in both Chinese and English. I'm sure you all can imagine how the Chinese version went! :P They treated us to mango frozen yogurt which was so yummy, and such a treat in today's hot weather. Our last activity was paper cutting, where they taught us to make snowflake-like designs, butterflies, and dragonflies. These students are so hospitable, and everyday I know I personally strive to be as giving and loving as they are.
Much Love,
Katie
As for Dave, Davie and I (Cyrus)' group, we visited factories to do business with their Maintenance Manager's. Davie is a salesman for Wurth, a German tools, fasteners, chemicals, safety products corporation. We accompanied him on his trip to two factories, one a paper factory (for cigarette packages), and one a very large beer manufacturing and packaging plant. After almost having our car ran over by an industrial truck at the paper plant where we delivered 94 bottles of spray lubricant, we safety arrived at the beer factory, which was astonishingly large. The entire plant was almost the size of Exton, Pennsylvania! Dave, Davie and I had a great time at the plant where we witnessed fermenting, bottling, and packaging of the beer. When Davie had lost his I.D. card (similar importance to a passport in China!), we walked around the entire plant many times, and in the end, our Father helped us find it in the midst of thousands of workers. As the fruits of our laboring at these two factories, Davie was able to successfully sell a large volume of lubrication oil, drill bits, and other various industrial tools and supplies. Though the day was hot and the walking was laborious, we had a great time traveling with Davie and taking advantage of this once-in-a-lifetime chance to visit a Chinese factory of such size.
Thanks for thinking of us daily,
Cyrus
We have already witnessed so many wonderful things happening here in Guilin, but your thoughts for our safety and purpose here are always so greatly appreciated. We miss you back and home, and I'm more than sure we will have so many stories for you all in a few weeks!
Much love,
Katie and Cyrus
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