Sep 10: Cultural Immersion Day #5

After the class, we visited the Wenshu temple, a Buddhist monastery in the north part of town. They boast a vegetarian restaurant -- though it took us awhile to be sure, since they still list all the dishes as if they have meat in them. The "pork" just comes made out of soy beans.

While there, we were joined by an octagenarian in military uniform, with two teeth. He had spent two years in California during World War II, and so had a smattering of English that he wished to show off. He made lots of gun motions with boom boom noises to make sure we knew he had been in the army and insisted that we should find ourselves husbands in China. He listed the world's famous universities: Harvard, Oxford, Cambridge, and the University of Michigan.

Finally, upon leaving, he paused, opened his mouth wide and pointed into it: "No teeth!" We assured him we had already noticed.