Just wanted to offer one quick update to the our last entry: Westerners are such a rare sight in Haining that a group of thirty of them walking around, including over half a dozen African Americans, triggered a lot of curiosity on Chinese social media!

The day after the wedding, we were enjoying an incredible lunch and a journalist from the local paper came to interview Grace and find out what event had brought so many people to Haining. Before we knew it, a nice writeup appeared on Chinese social media; check out the stitch attached. (Sorry for the resolution and size; it was only published on social media platform WeChat so has been stitched together from screencaps.)