Every term the Foreign Affairs Office and Language Department takes the foreign teachers out for an “adventure”. This term we went on a boat ride. The members of our group included (Andrea was under the weather and skipped the rainy outing) Rachel and JP, Steve, Emily, the 3 Japanese teachers and many more from both offices.
We rode a bus for about 3 hours to a spot where we got on a boat. It was the head waters for the QianTang river that runs by our campus. The scenery was sort of a poor-man’s Li River Cruise. It had nice mountains, but I have been forever spoiled by the unique shapes of the mountain in Guilin and Yangshua. We stopped about 4 times – once to hike up to a nice water fall, to eat, to see a historic battle site and the last stop was to pick mandarin oranges. You were allowed to eat as much as you wanted and you only had to pay for the fruit you left with. So Steve and I went around tasting the fruit from different trees to find the sweetest tree. After sampling about 6 bushes we found a good one. We each took a big bag back of the really cheap and really good fruit.
