I was flattered to recieve lots of requests to continue the English presentations that I started when I first came to work in China. Michael sent out the invitation with the top of “Summer in America”, basically a simple recap of my activities in the summer of 2007, there were many responses and we had a full house. I copied about 70 pictures to my work laptop and put them in a rudimentary order in preparation for the presentation. I ended up talking about some climbing trips (Sir Donald, Prusik, and Vestal), trips around Seattle with colleagues from China, and my trip to Kansas, Pennsylvania, and Colorado. I was provide the attendees with many new English word from “slug” (my picture of a typical giant slug native to the Cascades) to “enchanted” and “gnome” (both gleaned from my trip with Robert to the Enchantments in Central Washington). Also, it sounds like there is a lot of demand for a recap of popular presentations like “Western Table Manners” and “Body Language Basics”, all fun topics.

(l-r) Talking about Michael at the shootin’ range (got lots of inquiries), the audience is listening