Sunday, January 19, 2014

Xiamen China

A view of Xiamen City from one of the mountain parks

Xiamen

Xiamen is the beautiful seaside town where we live.  It's a popular tourist destination for Chinese because of the setting and relatively low pollution.  It's been a good place to live despite some challenges.  We haven't travelled around much, so this is what we've been doing.

Our district, Xinglin, from the bay
We went to an amusement park one day with some of our students
We got to see the American Women's Beach Volleyball
team play, Julia's heroes

Philip's crown fell off while eating some candy, so we went
to the neighborhood dentist
This is part of a show put on by the elementary school for
Sports Days, a big nation-wide sports competition.

Some middle school kids playing a group game
The kids really prepared for this.

We found a little bit of home in an Everything's 10 Yuan Store
Dueling groups of wedding photographers vying for the best shot

We were invited on a boat ride around the bay one day.
Philip took the wheel.
We went to this little island.  That's our district in the background.

Julia and our friend Deborah took a turn
navigating the high seas.

There's a huge boating industry here, mostly
centered around the giant port where much of
the worlds granite passes through.

Our Halloween costumes
Julia won a giant TV that we sold to buy an electric bike.

Our district's little "downtown".  Yes, a McDonalds, and a KFC
Of course you can drive on the sidewalk.

admiring the woodwork
One of the more famous temples in the area

A big complex of pagodas
MMM BBQ sqid on Zhongshan Road

On Gulang Yu, a small island nearby
Just some pig parts for sale on a table.

Chicken feet and fish
Some people we work with in the International Department







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