We met with Rufo today and got a tour of JRU campus. We also happened to meet another teacher at the school who was there on a Saturday. Robert is a high school math teacher and he didn’t hold back in his enthusiasm for meeting us. I felt very welcomed!

JRU has an impressive campus! There are several buildings that house different levels of the school – from primary up through graduate school. Most of the classrooms were closed because it was Saturday, but there were many college-age students on campus. Rufo mentioned that many of them were there for their required PE classes that don’t fit into their schedule otherwise. I think it’s great that college students are required to take a PE class, but I won’t be advocating for that in the US anytime soon. I gotta pick my battles carefully. JRU will be celebrating its 100^th anniversary next year. As part of the commemoration, they are building a 9-story building in the middle of their campus. We saw the construction for it on our tour. I’m regretting not taking any pictures to accompany this post. I’ll have to be better with that when we return on Monday.

Johan and I met Molly Bryson in person, too. She’s the other US Fulbrighter who is here. After our tour, Molly joined us in meeting Marilou and our kids at Greenhills center, which is a huge mall and Tiangge. Only one of our daughters found the shoes of her dreams, so it caused strife with the other one. We will see if we can correct that at Megamall today. We didn’t stay too long at Greenhills before we made it back home to another delicious home-cooked meal and called it a night.