Lisa and Glen in Ningbo …

As most of you know my good friend Lisa and her husband are spending a year in China where they are both teaching 10^th graders. I love getting her letters and photos and like sharing them with you.

Recently they were treated to a lovely day in the Old Town in Ningbo by one of their students, Terrence, and his sister and her husband.

They stopped for lunch where they could watch the vendor cooking and in the next picture you see them all enjoying their meal. I am impressed to see that Glen has picked up the art of using chop sticks. (Perhaps he’d starve if he waited for a fork !)

I had never heard of Ningbo and when I did a little research I found that it is actually one of China’s oldest cities with a history dating back to the Memuda culture in 4800 BC. It was also a trade city on the exotic silk route at least two thousand years ago. It makes me realize how very “young” we are as a country here in the United States.

Lisa and Glen are certainly getting an “on hands” view of China and I love being there too …albeit vicariously.