Let's go fly a kite

Last weekend we finally partake of a very Chinese activity – kite flying! But since any ol’ kite would not do, we decided to go with an embassy group to a place outside of town where we could actually make our own kites. The little Chinese home all 30 of us squeezed into was the home of an old kite maker who had examples of his work throughout the main room.

It turned out that they were only entrusting us to make a pretty straightforward single-string kite. There were pre-made frog patterns that we painted with watercolors. (Seth and I shared one and Michael got a kite of his very own.)
After the paint had dried we glued on the balsa wood supports and then finally tied on the strings. (This was also our chance to learn some cool new knots from Seth - now if we could only remember what they were....)
Then we headed out to a near by cornfield and tried out our new creations.

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