This week's picture

This picture is of one of the local Hui men. The area where we live is the "autonomous region" for the Hui ethnic minority group. The Hui, descendants of Persian traders on the Silk Road, are ethnically Muslim. Many of the students we teach are also Hui. Usually the younger people don't wear the traditional dress, but when walking around our town, one can see many older men wearing the traditional hats and women wearing the traditional head scarves.

Two weeks in one

Last week was so super busy that I forgot to post the photo of the week! This week I'm trying to make up for it by doubling up. Enjoy!

Below is a photo of a very common sight in China: split pants. Here often children don't wear diapers. They wear split pants that are conveniently open in the middle for easy access. The parents begin training the babies when they are very little to "respond" to the mother whistling. It's a pretty fascinating idea.



Below are two photos of the mountains we can see from our apartment. This is one of our favorite things about where we live. The first photo is an unusually vibrant sunset. The second was taken the morning after a thunderstorm in September. We got rain, but the higher elevations got snow.

Kitty Pictures for this week!

Below are two photos that our Japanese friend took. She is also a teacher at our school and lives in our building. She shares our love of cats and took these awesome pictures of just one of the many stray cats on campus. Thanks, Yuri!

Surprised cat!

Happy cat!