IN GUIPING NOW!
We did not get much of a chance to write in Hangzhou as we wanted to spend all our R & R time enjoying the lovely city.
On our free day, I went with Danling to City Hall to meet with the Director of Civil Affairs who was very positive. Then we met up with most of the group at the Hangzhou Orphanage where Susan did Power Point #3. We had lunch there & toured the facility. It is a brand new orphanage & beautiful. It is meant to be the model orphanage for the province. It has a number of fabulous playgrounds, gym, running track, classrooms, therapy rooms & many buildings with bedrooms. It is built to have 500 children but currently only 150 live there. A nice facility but they are lacking in the training of how to use all of the equipment.
We were all able to go our separate ways in the later afternoon & enjoy the beautiful West Lake.
In the evening, we met Shirley who lives in Hangzhou & helped us with the adoption of Susan in 1996. Many families from the Twin Cities know Shirley as she has helped with CHSFS adoptions for years. She hasn't changed a bit! The whole group went to Pizza Hut for dinner. Pretty funny - they had Halloween decorations & the greeters were dressed up. The pizza was good - it bit different from the U.S. - especially the seafood one with squid & other assorted specimens - it was great.
After dinner, a few of us went to the night market which was huge. It was Friday night so it was jammed. So many designer products . . . or so they said!
The whole day it did not rain & was in the 60s or 70s - perfect!
Today we flew from Hangzhou to Nanning. There we boarded a bus for Guiping. It is in the southwest part of China & what a difference. Very rural.. Beautiful mountains, fields of crops, oxen, women hauling water in buckets on poles.
Off to dinner with the group.
Cheryl Heley
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We met our little girl in Nanning (from Yulin SWI). Only difference is when we were there it was STEAMY (June)!!! Would love to see some photos uploaded if you have a moment. Good luck with the rest of the presentations and blessings on the rest of your work during this trip.
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