We went to have Kell's TB test read today (it was fine) back on Shamian Island. It is beautiful and quaint with lots of little shops. The first shop we went into had some Christian items for sale. I asked the owner, a young Chinese woman, if she was a Christian. She happily answered that she was a new Christian and went to a church around the corner. I told her that we were, also, and had been trying to tell our new Chinese son about Jesus and asked if she could help explain it to him. Kell was already carrying around a cross that he had picked up in her shop. This is what she told me that she told him in Mandarin: "God created the earth and all the people. This is his son, Jesus, who came and died on this cross so we can go to heaven forever. Jesus loves the little children so much and he sent your family for you. You can read this in the Bible (and showed hers to him)". He opened his hands like a book and said, "Bible." Kell picked out a cross to buy and I have added a picture of Kell and Emma, the shop owner.
On the riverfront there were lots of people doing their morning exercise...group dancing, ballroom type dancing, "karate move" dancing, even balancing a ball on your squash racquet dancing. Kell really wanted in on the dance action so we paired up and did a little Chinese boot scootin of our own! Mills told him never to do that again and Burke tried teaching him the John Wall...we'll see!
After some shopping and bargaining we had lunch at the famous "Lucy's". It was real American food!! So good! We ate and ate even after we were full knowing our next meal would be far from western!
We are back at the hotel where Kell and Baba are having their afternoon nap. I am taking Mills and Burke down to see if we can get a squash court. Yesterday we got a table tennis court (yes, a court, ping pong is serious here). The attendant seemed surprised that we traveled without our own table tennis "racquets"! Doug and Kell joined us yesterday at the end of ping pong time and these Americans got a little loud...we turned the court into the "Hokey Pokey" dance floor! Oh and "Head and Shoulders, Knees and Toes". Trying to think of fun ways to teach body parts in English. It's sweet to see my big boys doing the Hokey Pokey for a good cause!
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