It is Sunday evening. Our view is wonderful tonight with clear blue Sky's. It rained a little bit this afternoon but not enough to make getting a taxi difficult. Sunday is Mr. Zhangs day off so we are on our own for transportation....scooters, feet, or taxi. Mr. Zhang has not really "snapped out of it" so we were relieved to have a taxi today....that is a sad state of affairs.

We went to church today so we could get some information about youth groups, small groups, and other spiritual growth opportunities. As I have said before the church service is always very long and it is "Forrest Gump" (never know what you're going to get) as far as the message and speaker. We were lucky today and had a good message and speaker.


Abi tried out for the volley ball team at school and will be playing on the varsity team....it is good to be tall and have a good attitude. The coach told us that she would teach Abi a few "jobs" for this year and develop her skills so she could be a starter next year. Abi is very happy to be on the team and I am looking forward to watching the games.


On Saturday Tim and I went to Suzhou to look at sidecar motorcycles. Tim is convinced that this would be a great souvenir from China. We were told to meet Jessie at the Blue Marlon Restaurant in Suzhou and he would take us to the factory. I expected a large guy with a long beard and leather clothing. Imagine my surprise when Jessie was a clean-cut Canadian kid the same age and size as Tucker. We followed Jessie across town and down a narrow gravel alley to the factory. It turns out that Jessie went to University about 2 hours from Tucker's school and came to China to teach English. He liked the sidecars that are made in Suzhou and started working part time for the factory because he could speak English. He is now selling sidecars but will be going back to Canada on Tuesday to start a professional tour of long drive golf competitions. I did not take in much information about the sidecars but as you can tell I found out a lot about Jessie. Tim, however learned more about the sidecars and here are some pictures from the factory....