This is one side of our future sister school 

Sara's epal idolized her from just her emails. She knew everything about Sara! 

Meredith, explaining to her epal the finer points aof American teenage life. 

Our epals have over 60 students per class 

Evan's epals 

Day 5 

Brad showing off his 2 new Rolex watches from the back of his rickshaw 

Sara, shopping in old China. 

The Hutong Daycare center has children from age 2 to age 6. In this movie, the kids sang us "Are you sleeping" in Chinese 

This little boy stole my heart. 

The Hutong Daycare center was amazing! 

Wait Brad! the driver is suppose to ride the bike!! 

One of the millions of alleys in the Hutong District. The Hutong neighborhood is the oldest area of Beijing. Although the Chinese government has torn down much of the Hutong style areas to accomodate newer apartment building, they will not be destroying this area. Instead they will be preserving these quaint homes. 

Meredith and Sara posing with their rickshaw driver 

This is a pic of the Sterlings weaving thru the Hutong streets 

Today we got to ride on rickshaws in the Hutong district. Here is Sara, Brad and Ben getting ready for their ride