frenchy braids...

is the newest style around here these days :) my teammates like to have their hair french braided and now students are taking a fancy of it! after coffee house last tuesday night, my students asked me to teach them to french braid their hair... so naturally- i did. :) the next day they came to my office eager to get their hair french braided and practice on me too... it's funny how the incentive to come visit me during office hours involves hair! watch out china, the french braids are back and taking over Harbin! :D

breaking the ice

my mom came to visit slippery ice-snow-land of harbin this weekend and walking back from class we saw a mob of people in the middle of the road... "what could they possibly be doing?" we pondered aloud...

surely enough there was a huge group of freshman students (i asked one in my broken chinese and understood something about "freshman... class... work" haha) literally "breaking the ice" with shovels in 20 something degree weather.

i later reported back excitedly about this new finding to my team and apparently it's nothing new! every year during the winter each freshman class is in charge of a certain area on the road to shovel and chip the ice so it won't pile up TOO much. i thought that's what machines for are for.. but why use machines when you can use students! hehe i think this is another reason why i would never succeed as a REAL chinese college student. bless their hearts!




and a wonderful video of the chorus of shovels.. haha... enjoy!