Well today was the first day for our students to finally be back at school. What a great time it was! As the students walked up the stares I realized how much I had missed them and how excited I was to be teaching them!
SO last weekend I got a phone call from one of my Chinese friends, he asked me if I wanted to come and watch some people play sand volleyball at this pretty big tournament near my house. I of course said yes, well when I got there I was actually ON a team, oh boy! So there I was the only white person and the only girl playing in the mens league. We had such a great time, I was sore for about 3 days but the tournament was for sure a blast. It was great at one point our game was the only one being played and everyone was around our court cheering for the 1 WHITE person, they kept saying in Chinese "LETS GO foreigner ! haha...
I was SO tired that I slept through a good friend birthday party, I think that was a little due to jetlag, and the tournament, I felt pretty terrible. However, like I said it was a good friends bday party so she was totally understanding!
Monday-Wednesday we had meetings at school along with lots of PREP for our class rooms. Oh man my class room/area is a mess. As I have mentioned before we share our school with a Chinese elementary school.... Well every year they seem to take more and more away from the outside open area, where we do PE. So we used to have a field in front of our school however, now it is completely torn up with a few strips of concrete down the middle. There are many workers daily out there however, I'm still unsure of what they are doing. Well when I saw that I was like "oh its okay at least we still have the circle area". The next day I went to work and BAM, there they were buidling another shed, straight dab there in the middle of that circle area... So I'm unsure of where PE classes will really take place, we can go to the tennis court but half that time that is filled with chinese students. God has def. talk me the word flexibility and HE has given me great ideas exactly when needed, I will continue to realx and trust in HIM.
Tomorrow is Friday, which this year MWF are my busiest days. I have 8 classes plus Open Gym times, and starting next week we will have Choir practice after school. Which God has once again been faithful. Last year the choir consisted of 7 people, 3 high school girls and 4 middle school girls. As of today choir this year has 15 people singed up, 8 high school students (notice i didn't say girls) and 7 Middle School students. I'm so excited for this year in choir as I am excited for this whole year in general.
Okay my last thought for this post has to do with Christmas. I was thinking of places that would great to visit, and def. on top of my list is to someday go to Australia..... I decided okay I'll just check out the prices and see how expensive they are. To my surprise I found tickets for 4,000 RMB for round trip. (Less than 650 dollars) ... So I am currently looking for someone to go with my to Australia, if you are going or want to go or think you could do it.. LET ME KNOW! I seriously would love to go.
Thanks again for keeping up to date with whats going on in my life.. More to come, probably next week. ZAI JIAN !!!
--What greater joy is there than training the mid and forming the habits of the young? ~ St. John Chrysostom
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