[This entry completes our cousin Rick's journal on his time in China and how deeply it changed his life and outlook. Thank you for reading his thoughts and journeys. We miss him tremendously.] If I made a list of all of my friends and all of the things that they did for me, there would be so many pages for just this topic. Throughout this journal, I talk about people that I did things with and what we did. There are pictures that show them and what we did. To someone reading this, it wouldn’t mean anything, only to me and my friends. I know who my dear friends are and what they did for me. I will never forget. Both times that I was in Luoyang, I had the most wonderful Chinese friends that anyone could want. All of the people that I met were so wonderful to me. Going out to eat, showing me where and how to shop. Teaching me about the culture. They taught me what buses to take, we would go out to eat at many different restaurants so I could eat different kinds of food. I went mountai...
Chapter 136 Friends I can’t say enough about my wonderful Chinese friends. I couldn’t ask for any better friends than what I had. I kept meeting all kinds of people just like anyone in life but I never knew how nice these people were and that the friendship would last from then on. The teachers were so great to me. We’d go out to eat, do all kinds of things. I’d get invited to their homes. I’d go places with them, mountain climbing, they would teach me how to do things there, how to ride the bus, how to shop, where to find things in different stores, get invited to their homes for festivals like The Chinese New Year, National Day and others. The list can go on and on. When any of the teachers came here to La Crosse as exchange teachers, I would do anything that I could for them because they had been so nice to me. It was so nice when they came here so we could talk about Luoyang because we knew so much about the same things. Luoyang is my second home so it is nice to hear ab...