abby's diary

10. 4-01-08 we were switching houses in the morning, so we packed up and made the bag switch. The next group was a lot of fun. The club’s current president brought his son’s girlfriend, Chandra, a long for the trip. She is at one of the universities studying Education and English. She spoke English quite well and was a wonderful interpreter for the day. We started the day by heading to Yuan Ze University. UNCG (Denise works as the Assistant Director of the Exchange program at UNCG) has a partnership with this school. We were to meet with the President of the school and take a tour. The campus was nice. It was a smaller school so it didn’t take too long to trek the campus. Which was a good thing because it had been raining for the last few days and we were all tired of being wet!

After a few more activities, we headed to dinner with the new club. It was great to meet the new group we would be staying with for a while, and I had a lot of fun talking with Chandra as we were close to the same age.

After dinner I got to meet the host family I would spend the next week with. I welcomed the idea of getting to stay in one home without having to move!

Archi and Maggie are such a sweet couple. They don’t speak a lot of English so it has been a bit more difficult for communication, but they are so wonderful, and we can usually figure out what we are trying to say! They have three wonderful and lively children. They were a lot of fun when I arrived. The oldest son has been learning English is school, so his mother was trying to get him to talk to me a bit. After a bit of chatting (or at least trying to) it was time for bed. The highlight was that I had Internet access in the bedroom. It has been great to get to keep the blogs updated regularly. I know most of the other team members have been unable to get online.