Dana: Tops here are different, Ikea is not.

Thank goodness I brought extra tennis shoes and orthopedic insoles. My shoes are still soaked from yesterday. Things her take FOREVER to dry.

Today we went to Dashi High School. It was a a lot further away than the others. (about an hour car ride). Eve got car sick on the way there, and I wished had brought ginger pills with me. This school was very different. I think the best way to describe it would be to say the other school buildings were like Dallas ISD, but this one was like Plano isd, if that makes sense. In geography class, the students did presentations. I noticed that they were way less formal than presentations in school in the US. They didn't have to use good speaking skills. Most of them stood with their backs to the audience reading the power point and I couldn't hear them. Then again, maybe my standards are just high because of speech. I noticed that none of the students take notes in the classes. I would never be able to learn without taking notes! Some of them also text in plain view during class. I thought Asian schools were supposed to be stricter! But, again, maybe they were only like that because of us. In Social studies class we played a game where each ambassador in the class (Joeseph, Ryan and I) had a team and whoever knew the embassador the best by the end of class won (they did a presentation about us). That was a lot of fun because we got to share in depth details about our lives and culture. For lunch, we got to make dumplings. they were really good.

After that we went to an elementary school. We thought we were going to see elementary classes, but it turns out that this school has a world renound spinning top team, and that was who we saw. The kids on the team were only twelve, but they could do some amazing stuff with the tops. Check out Gena's Facebook video to see it. We then learned how to do the tops. It was sooo cool!

I went to IKEA for dinner with Carol. It turns out that the ONLY difference between different Ikeas is the language, which was disapointing. But I was able to get some cool burnt orange stuff (hook 'em horns!).

I am much more tired tonight and want to go to bed early.