4th Annual Community Service Day

It was community service day today which involved all the Schoolhouse staff spending 2 hours cleaning up garbage from the streets of Mutianyu as well as the restaurant’s profits going to local charities. I was a little worried we would find some snakes, but I guess we were lucky!

 

 

We actually had quite a fun time this morning and collected a huge amount of garbage. It’s nice to feel like we’re really making a difference! One of the families staying with us even came out to help and everyone got a free lunch at the end. Yes, I know, our lunch always free, but this one included 4 dishes and juice (sour plum and green bean -- which tastes oddly like the water one might have boiled beans in...)

I hosted with one of the new guys at lunch today. I have unfortunately yet to learn his name. It’s crazy how hard Chinese names are to remember! He was helping me with my Chinese and my new words of the day are: “French” (language), “French” (people), “France,” “hard” (as in hard to learn) and ‘thirsty.”

I had built up quite a long list of e-mails to answer over my days off so I spent most of the afternoon doing that and had a lovely nap when I got home.