Everybody was Kung-Fu Fighting...

While living in China, I had the amazing opportunity of being trained in Kung-fu by a real Chinese Kung-Fu Master... SPRING!! :)

and his cute side kick... who's name I can never remember!

Twice a week we took a short little trip to practice our skills. Tuesday nights we went to his studio, we had to take a bus about 20 minutes, then climb under a fence through a mossy field it was almost like part of our training. Then Fridays we took a half hour bus to another kindergarten to practice!
I loved Kung-Fu, it was a very big workout and always challenging! At the very end of the semester we put a show on for a kindergarten. We got to wear these beautiful yellow silk outfits ;) It was a lot of fun, afterwards we had fun doing our own photoshoot!



There were only 3 of us from my school who took Kung-Fu lessons, so we met with another ILP school for lessons and the performance, it was fun to socialize with other Americans a few times a week!



I know this picture is a little blurry, but I love it!! Spring was such an amazing teacher and made China so much fun... I really miss him and Kung-Fu!

Maybe if I would have stayed longer I could have gotten this good;)

Disappearing Ocean... Who Knew?!

A few weekends before coming home from China we decided to spend the day in Zhuhai- a city right on the beach :) We were all excited to play in the Ocean and have a fun weekend... we took a 2 hour bus ride to Zhuhai only to find that... the Ocean was missing?!?! Probably one of the strangest things I have ever seen!

What made it even more funny was that the grass above was covered with people staring out at the "ocean" almost like it was still there... or maybe they were waiting for it to come back?
Luckily we had another chance to go back and this time the ocean was back :)


We had actually gone down for the dragon boat festival to see if there were any races... unfortunately we were not able to find any- but we did get to celebrate by eating the traditional foods!! :)


These are rice dumplings, They are VERY delicious, especially hot and dipped in lots of sugar!!