Highlights Yongshuo week two

Some highlights...
This last week I have been staying with a family in a small village just outside of Yangshuo. I teach three classes a day, grades 1,2,3. its a lot of fun, the kids are great. I have been reading a lot too, and am almost done with Atlas Shrugged, which has officially become one of my all-time favorites. Seriously, if you have the time look it up, its thick, but soo worth it.
Anyway, today is the mid-autumn festival. I am going to a barbecue later with my host family. One of the sons in the family I am staying with was recently married and more or less the entire village came to the ceremony, and pre/post parties. The festivities consisted of drinking lots of strong alcohol (the part in which I did not partake- I was playing with the kids in the sandbox) eating tons of delicious food, and playing card games. It was a lot of fun, and all of the village people (no, not the YMCA village people) were very happy to have me there... or at least I think.
In general, the food is good. Every meal is basically the same. There is a wok in the center of the table filled with some sort of broth, along with assorted fish, or meat. There is the rice in a big bowl that is set on the ground a few feet away from the table. On either side of the wok are usually two or three bowls of either vegetables or some sort of spicy beef. Its all very good. The chairs we sit in are very small, about the size you would imagine for a preschooler. The seat is no more than a foot off the ground! Very uncomfortable, but I have gotten used to it.
There are chicken and wild dogs running around all over the place, and cows lay on the side of all the roads. No one speaks English. But I get by with body language, barely.
The kids love it when I play the harmonica, so I have been doing a lot of that. I am currently in a town called Pin Lu, though that's not how its spelt. I have met a few people that can speak English, they both majored in English in college, and are extremely nice.
I went fishing the other day. Although it is not the kind of fishing we are familiar with. Basically what happens is we go out in a boat, find a spot where fish seem to be active. Take a bottle filled with some sort of explosive, light a fuse and throw into a spot where the fish seem to be. Then BOOOOM!!! The explosion kills every fish within a 30 foot radius. I think I may have told you about this before, so please forgive me if I have, it's just that cool. Other than that I haven't really been doing all that much. I spend my down time listening to conversations I can't understand, reading Atlas, and writing... Hopefully I can find a steady Internet connection so I can stay in contact.
Hope all is well!
Zai jian!