Slow Boat to China

Ashlee has been studying Mandarin in high school the past two years, and this summer she had the opportunity to go on a two week "summer camp" with the University of Idaho's Confucius Institute.
She's been home for about a week now, but it took me a little while to put together a post.
So, here are some pictures from her adventure:

First meal in China:

Traditional tea:

At the Great Wall:

Street vendor food:

Fried scorpions!?!

People in China are not used to seeing non-Asian people. Ashlee says that people were always taking pictures of them, asking to take selfies with them, or trying to discreetly take selfies with them. This woman out of the blue gave one of the girls her baby so that she could take a picture of the girl holding him:

At the Shaolin Monastery:

Kung Fu demonstration:

A night cruise on the Pearl River:

At the Southern China University of Technology, the group's host in China:

It looks like a really amazing trip. Ashlee was exhausted when she got home, but she had a lot of fun.