(Terry)Sunny skies overhead today; cherry blossom petals swirl along the driveway with the breeze, and we try our very best to ignore that clock ticking in the background. Offhand comments acquire more import, a casual snapshot becomes the last picture arm-in-arm with a now-dear friend, and there's a piquancy to all the little happenings that compose our day.
We've done our darndest to concentrate on morning classes. To our endless delight, we find that Yang Laoshi has crafted and stamped calligraphy for each of us -- loads of framing work now awaits us at home. Brushes swirled busily across numerous sheets of paper, and we find Yang Laoshi liberal with praise today: so many red circles and "very good"s! After he leaves us, poetry and portraits are our self-assigned work, until our history teacher joins us. We peer at the powerpoint he's prepared about some of the highlights of Hangzhou, including the Lingjing and Daoist temples. (We'll visit the Lingjing Temple this Saturday.) Class ends with a trip out to take pictures with the nearly century-old cherry tree as background. After our customary huge lunch, the young folk all head out to English Corner while laundry beckons me around the block to my washing machine!
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