Check out our penpals! The boys loved to repeat the American hand signals as you can see. Emily and Michaela learned to write their names in Chinese from their friends-Chinese calligraphy is more difficult than it looks. Sophia and her friend had a great time playing and she cried when it was time to say goodbye. They were very cute together. My favorite line was the thank you Luke’s friend gave him. “Thank you to you and your country for fighting the Japanese and helping our government.” Sophia’s little friend had cute textbook English-“What do you like to do in your free time?”. We enjoyed meeting the parents as well. Some spoke English but the father of Sophia’s friend spoke German as a second language. Dan never thought he would need to recall German for his trip to China.
