Back to it

Pic: Hong Kong

This is by far the longest holiday ever. And Jeff still has another 2 weeks before he goes back to work. The Chinese generally work 7 days a week, but the holiday is L-O-N-G.
We have heard rumors that they are moving all of the foreign teachers at Jeff's college to another campus. It is in a smaller city about an hour outside of our city. It seems we are constantly having to think about change here. It could be this next semester or another 2 years.....
Yesterday on the bus, a woman kept putting an orange peel up her nose. It is 9:00am in the morning and fireworks are going off. Fireworks have been going off everyday for about 3 weeks now. Wyatt has been in 13 year old heaven since all the kids are on holiday. He has made many Chinese friends, they set off fireworks and shoot each other with air soft guns. They are very generous to Wyatt.
Lexi has also made a friend her age, and she is very diligent about teaching Lexi Chinese. She wants to open up a Chinese school in the US. She is a serious darling teacher!
Savana starts rehearsal for a school play today. She is very excited and has a lot on her plate. She begins teaching English again to adult staff this week and working on a recording to audition for a college scholarship at Whitworth University in Washington. She has been accepted and they are offering her a chance at a scholarship. It has been a pure delight to sit around in the evening and listen to her sing different hymns. This college is unique in that she can receive a scholarship for music, but she can still major in physical therapy. Of course who knows what will happen or where she will end up going. She is just continuing to jump through the hoops while she looks forward to her gap year.


Be Still My Soul puts us both in tears! Lyrics here.