Some pictures of us

I realize we don't take enough pictures of ourselves in China, and maybe you want to see our familiar faces every once in awhile. We finally have friends who take pictures of us and send them to us.

So, here we are with our new Colombian friends, Sylvia and Felipe. We met them for some moon-gazing on the night of the Mid-Autumn festival, but by the time we got to the park, all the Chinese were already drunk and passed out on benches, so we went to a noodle shop for a late dinner, followed by a walk in the moonlight.

My students like to take pictures of me with their camera phones while I'm teaching, which is incredibly distracting. I told them I would pose for pictures after class if they would quit disrupting class. Here is a picture one of my students sent me from an after-class photo shoot. Her name is Jennifer too and she thinks that "we will be best friends." She kept insisting that we hold hands for the picture, but I kept insisting that I wanted to keep my hands firmly pressed on the podium.