Last weekend some students invited us to go kite flying. We have been having really nice weather so Joel and I decided to go. We rode our bikes to a park to meet our students and started to notice that it was not a very windy day. Although, we were still hopeful that we would be able to fly kites because we saw some other kites in the air.
As we were getting the kites out there was an old man who had a lot of kites so we assumed he knew what he was doing. We watched how he got a kite in the air and tried to do the same thing. We layed the kite down and let out a lot of string and pulled it so it would go up, however it did not work like the old man. So we decided one person would throw the kite while the other one would run. Basically we spent the whole day running around dragging kites on the ground. Joel got one kite to stay in the air for about 10 minutes, but most of mine ended up in a tree and lots of Chinese would gather around trying to help me or just watch me. It was pretty amusing. Even though we could not get our kites up we had a fun day with our students and the view was great. There were 50 or so people there trying to fly kites, it was neat to see so many kites in the air.
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