Happy July 4th in China!

Since today was the 4th of July, we were able to celebrate it in the afternoon. After a morning of fun/interesting Chinese classes with Wang laoshi and Pan laoshi, we had our usual lunch and got on another rented bus and headed out to celebrate the 4th of July at the International School of Beijing. It was like being back home again, well sort of. Everything was pretty fancy (well a school worth $22,000 dollars a year gives you some perks) and there were food stands from different companies like McDonald's and Papa John's. They even hired a band to play and just so many things to do and eat. Unfortunately due to the rain, the fireworks were cancelled. However, we still had a fun time nonetheless and enjoyed each other's company. It was one of our more relaxed days since we've been here and I feel that we're going to get very few of these chill days so we enjoyed today as much as we could. Everyone's having a great time and we are each figuring out each other's personalities and establishing new relationships with each other. We can't wait to see what tomorrow will bring for us! 

- Liann