Second week...

Hola hola,

The second week is coming to a close.  It has been raining quite a bit and i have never heard thunder like this.  Its cracks and rumbles hurt my ears.  We are still working on our still life in class.  He is having us cover the canvas in desaturated colors and we are blocking in.  He strongly encourages the use of liquin to thin out the paint and glazing.  We have one more week with Professor Xie, then we will have a new instructor in our studio.  One of the recent familiar sounds i hear in the morning, during class, and night are the marching soldiers.  Every college student in China has to serve in a two week military program in their first year of college.  It is grueling and they go all day long.

Freshman orientation

Jessica and i have also been frequenting downtown Guangzhou trying to get our residency figured out.  In order for it all to go through, we had to get physicals through China.  Luckily with our American physical check ups we only had to have blood drawn and an chest x-ray.

Street performers

Jess laughing at the stares she gets

we just had to go to Starbucks...

One more week of this class, then we will have a 7 day break.  Our next conquest is Xi'an.  Our friend Sophia is taking us for the week.  It is one of the main tourist attractions in China and houses the Terra Cotta Soldiers.  I am pretty excited.

Hasta