Hats and Sun

What to tell you? We have felt for several months now, we are in a holding pattern waiting for what's next. We have to learn not to wait and live today. It is drastically different from what we faced in the U.S. The kids are moving along happy as ever to be in China.
Savana is currently in Wenshan where she plans to serve next year. This is her first trip there and today she will visit some water projects and the clinic where she will be doing physical and musical therapy with disabled children. We are anxious to hear about her trip.
Wyatt is currently at basketball with the local school's team. He is making fast friends and the kids are great with him. We are trudging through school. Wyatt and I are currently teaching each other what we are learning about Napoleon. Wyatt is reading the 12 Most Decisive Battles and I am reading medical chronicles of Napoleon's campaign in Russia Anno 12. Quite interesting. What is not so interesting is diagramming sentences. Who really cares where gerunds go on the diagram chart? Do you?
Lexi is dancing a lot, preparing for an audition at Shanghai Ballet the first week of May. Shanghai is a boarding high school, we are looking into it for next fall. Not really sure what is in store for us for next year, but we keep opening the doors.
It has definitely warmed up here. It's nice, but heating up quickly and that means it gets........smelly. Yep......smelly. And along with the sun comes hats and umbrellas. It is not uncommon to see a man or boy in a woman's hat. Lacy, frilly, flowery, pink, purple, white anything will do to keep the sun off the face. Today a man with a large brimmed lacy hat and I had quite the stare down. He of course was looking at me with astonishment because.......well because I am a foreigner (big nose), very strange looking. And well, I was looking at him because I admired his hat!