Here are the two girls that stayed with us--Sophie and Aimee. They chose English names while they spent their time here and it's a good thing because I can't say their Chinese names.
Monday through Friday they toured with their group from 9-5, but on the weekend and the evenings we took them around to different activities. The next few pictures are from one of our trips to Big Cottonwood Canyon. They couldn't believe the mountains size and structure.
We also went to a minor league baseball game. They didn't really understand all the rules or why we were only cheering for the home team, but they loved all the snacks. I was surprised they liked popcorn; they are definitely girls after my own heart.
Since I had a young women's activity this week I brought the girls along. We made bonnets as our stake has an upcoming pioneer trek. One thing that was funny to me was how much they wanted things that weren't made in China. That is extremely hard to accomplish as so many of our goods are made in China. At least these bonnets were made in America.
The finished products turned out great!
Since I love roller-skating we also took the girls, along with my brother out to do that.
While we were skating the girls ran into some women who had moved here from China. They were thrilled to be able to talk with them in their native language.
It was a really full week we of course did tons of shopping, went out to eat at an Italian restaurant, played American board games, attended church, had them prepare a dinner for us and played Dance Dance Revolution until we dropped. It was a great experience.The last night we had a party will all the kids in the group. The kids brought us presents and wrote us thank you notes in Chinese. I was once again surprised by how sad they were to go home. They were such beautiful, respectful and fun teenage girls. We hope to keep in touch with them through email.
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