I did not download this photo, taken last Thursday, until today and felt it deserved a belated post. Perhaps inspired by the expression “as American as apple pie”, visiting Chinese exchange students were treated to an apple picking and pie baking activity shortly after they arrived last week. Pictured here is the pie/work-of-art created by Maya and Wu, the student staying with us. Maya, a seasoned pie maker, expertly trained over the years by her mother, was able to teach Wu how to cut the strips needed for the crust using only sign language. The results speak for themselves, no translation required.