23 Years

Nothing like a zoo in China

I'm sorry it (the song) is still making me laugh. I'm not really sure how I feel about this zoo yet, because I haven't visited any others in China. I do think that it was a nice place to walk, even in the rain it was very interesting. My classmates found it quite different from zoo's in there countries. All an all it was fun, but the song helps make it that much more interesting even though it's completely unrelated.

Great and Marvelous!

Last Sunday we went to church in Chinese.


Today we had Church in English!

Yeah! Jesus!

I am so mad at myself but i can't stop laughing!

对不起-This video has been pulled by you tube, Sorry! The Chinese remix is featured in the birthday video.

Ok I let my Indonesian friend listen to this remix, and then we let our Russian friend listen to it. Now we've go a Chinese version and they can't stop singing it.
这是我爷爷!
zhe shi wo yeye.

Translates directly, THIS IS YOUR GRANDDADDY!

Thought you would see the humor too!

How come after threatening to snow all last week, and not raining all weekend, it final snows this afternoon when I actually go outside on purpose! How funny is God, someone tell me He's not laughing cause I am.

VIP at the Bank

Being from almost anywhere else but China makes you VIP in most places. Which is kind cool. Today we went to my roommates bank for dinner, we made DUMPLINGS! They were the best i've had ever in China, no lie.

New friends

Shopping for things in the imported food section, because we are having spaghetti.

My fellow American, South Carolina in the House.

The two people helping me the most, my roommate and her boyfriend. They are from Gabon, and thier Chinese is very very good!

This is a picture after 6 hours of braiding hair. An we're still smiling!

Interesting things to know about China

This is the land of counterfeit, need I say more?

Think about this one okay. Here in China it's winter time, not like San Diego winter, but like Northern California, Washington State winter. Now this is only one of many, many, many baby butts throughout the region. But I can't even imagine walking around with by butt out in 35 degree weather.

There is a history behind the baby butt epidemic which has a lot to do with the Asian toilet, which I will cover at a later date.

Just because we know and love Dan!

My new look for school

I'm really here!

Detour

Don't get me wrong Xi'an is a nice enough place, the Terracotta Warriors are a must see, but we were just not feeling it for this time of year. It was just a little too, too, something that we couldn't quite label. Later for Xi'an.

Random Beijing

Day two in Beijing was a lot slow than day one, mainly because we were too tired to do anything major like the Great Wall 6 hour trek. So we got shots of other things and explored.

Seahorse, Scorpin, Starfish and Squid....yummmy!

北京 Here it is finally!

This was shot on our first day in China. We started our day about 6:30am CST by 4:00 pm we were way past tired. At least there was sunshine, we wouldn't understand how much we should have appreciated it until a couple day's later in Xi'an.

The Flight

Today's the day

The time has come for me to go where God leads me. Separating myself from what is comfortable and familiar. Please keep us in your prayers.  As we willingly take on new challenges.