Getting to Know SUAD

Morning was spent planning our partner project. Yu Zhouren and I get along great, and although neither of us speak much of the other's language, communication is more entertaining than frustrating.
Lunch with the chinese students fealt like our first opportunity to have a 'normal' meal. The cafeteria serves all variety of Chinese dishes, and since none of it is spelled out for us in english, it's pretty much up to our partners to pick for us. I found their choices to be well within the range of 'normal' food. Nothing they ordered was too weird to handle.
After lunch we toured the school gallery - a remarkable collection of ancient and contemporary chinese art and artifacts. My favorite was the wood working tools. for the most part, not much has changed in the last thousand years ( or more). Sure, we've got electrical power tools now, but everything on display is still used today. This is a picture of ink lines, the precursor of todays chalk lines.
After the gallery, we received a crash course in chinese calligraphy. They made us both write "I love you" in chinese and pose with our teachers. The three character sounds are "Wo ai ni", each one translating directly in sequence. The reason they look different, as you may have guessed, is that one is an ancient style, the other modern. Sadly, I don't remember which is which. I'll say that mine, being the more beautiful, was also probably more ancient.