Today we left Hong Kong Island and headed to Ningbo, a city of 2 million people on the coast of China, about a 3-hour drive from Shanghai. We didn't really have much time to explore the city but spent about an hour at their version of the Bund (famous waterfront area in Shanghai). After about thirty minutes we noticed that there were couples in wedding clothes posing for professional photographers everywhere! Apparently, if you are getting married in Nigbo, the tradition is to have some formal pictures taken in your wedding clothes before the big day!
This evening we had dinner with three incoming midyear students from Ningbo and their parents. It was a great event and it's amazing to meet these kids and their parents just weeks before their arrival at Gould. The enthusiasm is palpable and the questions are endless! Biggest concerns: credit cards, cell phones, food, and home stays during vacations - all solvable! It was also my first chance to really use my Mandarin (they speak Cantonese in Hong Kong) which I've been working on so much these last few months. All I can say is that Rosetta Stone really works and it makes a huge difference when you can speak the language here!
But it's worth noting that the word for wife can be easily confused for chicken!
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