:Facebook Chat on Friday:
Melissa: Enjoy being in China!
Julie: Enjoy eating brownies because they don't exist here!
Later, we walk into the apartment for our first small group and there were homemade brownies on the table. When I told Noel (one of the small group leaders) that they were my first brownies in 3 months she made Dan and I take them home (sadly for Dan they had nuts in them but he ate them anyway cause they were soooo good). Our small group went really well, it was really nice to fellowship with other Christians from around the world. We're in a young adult small group, but the people leading it are a married couple from CA so we're not the only married people there. Since we were Americans, Noel also invited us to Thanksgiving dinner on Friday so our Thanksgiving is going to be a lot more fun than we thought.
I have a 6 week break starting at the beginning of Jan. so I need to find some work to do so I can make money before school starts up again. The leader of the foreign teachers thing said they wanted me back, so I should have a job starting in the middle of Feb (until July?) which will be nice. I'm not sure if any of my friends are staying though.
Oh! Noel also has an oven in her apartment so she said I can go over there sometime and bake stuff which would be sooo much fun since I haven't been able to do that at all. You never realize how much you miss pies and cakes and cupcakes and brownies and cookies and cheesecakes (especially around the holidays) until you can't make them at all. I might try to make chocolate chip cookies or something somtime next week. She also likes to bake bread, so we might do that together sometime.
Christmas will be a little sad since we won't be around people. I'm hoping Christmas decorations will appear here sometime. The stuffed animal store on our street now has a giant stuffed santa clause, so hopefully other more practical things will start showing up.
Not too much else is going on. Don't know what else to say. It's getting cold here, but, thankfully, snow is really rare in China.
Hope everyone else is doing well!
Sunday, November 21, 2010
Thursday, November 11, 2010
Sickness
Sickness is upon us!
Dan's been sick since last Saturday, and I think my amazing immune system might be wearing down because I'm starting to have more than just a cold. Besides that, we're doing fine. We might start going to a Bible study next week (depending on how we're feeling), since Saturday services don't exist here and we both work on Sundays.
We went to the DVD store yesterday and spent maybe about $12 on season 5 of Criminal Minds. We've been trying to watch it online but it's so annoying, so we bought it. It should amuse us for a little while, then maybe by the time we're finished we'll be able to buy Harry Potter bootlegged. People here think it will take a week at the most after it comes out in theaters before it's available.
There's a new teacher here from England and he's taking some getting used to. It's getting better, but at first I was really annoyed with him because he was either talking about the differences in words that we use (at first it seemed like he was asking in a way that implied that British English was the correct way to say it and American English is wrong and doesn't make sense) or how American's are stupid. He and the Canadian both said they would have elected Sarah Palin into office before Bush.
Here's a picture. We went to the store to buy snacks and Dan got these cookies. Look at the nice pretty packaging that shows huge cookies with tons of big chocolate chips. Now look at the actual cookie. Do you see something wrong with this picture? The cookie was hard, and had almost no chocolate chips in it.
About two weeks ago we went to the Lama and Confucian Temple. Here's some pictures, sorry I'm not in any of them, I had the camera. One day, I might take a picture of my haircut so you can see how they messed it up. I showed one of the chinese teachers and she said I should get compensation for it, but I don't think I could since I got it cut so long ago.
Dan's been sick since last Saturday, and I think my amazing immune system might be wearing down because I'm starting to have more than just a cold. Besides that, we're doing fine. We might start going to a Bible study next week (depending on how we're feeling), since Saturday services don't exist here and we both work on Sundays.
We went to the DVD store yesterday and spent maybe about $12 on season 5 of Criminal Minds. We've been trying to watch it online but it's so annoying, so we bought it. It should amuse us for a little while, then maybe by the time we're finished we'll be able to buy Harry Potter bootlegged. People here think it will take a week at the most after it comes out in theaters before it's available.
There's a new teacher here from England and he's taking some getting used to. It's getting better, but at first I was really annoyed with him because he was either talking about the differences in words that we use (at first it seemed like he was asking in a way that implied that British English was the correct way to say it and American English is wrong and doesn't make sense) or how American's are stupid. He and the Canadian both said they would have elected Sarah Palin into office before Bush.
Here's a picture. We went to the store to buy snacks and Dan got these cookies. Look at the nice pretty packaging that shows huge cookies with tons of big chocolate chips. Now look at the actual cookie. Do you see something wrong with this picture? The cookie was hard, and had almost no chocolate chips in it.
About two weeks ago we went to the Lama and Confucian Temple. Here's some pictures, sorry I'm not in any of them, I had the camera. One day, I might take a picture of my haircut so you can see how they messed it up. I showed one of the chinese teachers and she said I should get compensation for it, but I don't think I could since I got it cut so long ago.
Monday, November 1, 2010
Happy November!
Last Monday I got a text message from the person who fired me saying he had a part time job for me. I was going to say no, but the student was someone I taught in afterschool class and he really wanted me to teach him. So now, on Sundays I'm teaching two 8 year olds from 10-12, and I make about $50 for doing that, which might not seem like a lot but when we eat out we usually spend around $6, so $50 pays for a lot here. I went there for the first time on Sunday and it went pretty well. I found out that the boy is from Australia and the girl is from Nigeria (they're both Chinese) so they learned English but now they're forgetting a lot of what they learned so their parents want them to have a tutor to help them improve their English.
Our roommate moved out last week. We actually already have a new one, but I haven't met him yet. It's definitely a small world because the last place he lived was in Howard County. I bet we have some mutual friends on facebook. Hopefully we will all get along.
Dan has a two week break. That means he's cooking dinner tonight, I'm excited. :)
We got a package from each of our families on Friday, within a couple hours of eachother. Now we have a ton of candy, which we're rationing, even though I would rather eat it all at one time and be sad later. Eating one fun size candy bar just makes me sad, but it's a whole lot better than no candy bar. We got some fall decorations too, which I hung up in our apartment, I would put a picture up but I'm at work and don't have it here and our VPN isn't working at our apartment so I can't get on facebook or my blog at home. We're both doing well, enjoying the nice weather this week, compared to the horrible coldness last week. We're also having a Lord of the Rings extended edition marathon, fun stuff.
Oh! And I got my passport back! The visa is good until the beginning of April, so that helps, and we are going to try to go to a church service on Saturday for the first time.
I love hearing updates from people, so if you want to update me on your life you can email me or send me a facebook message (my email is on my facebook page).
Our roommate moved out last week. We actually already have a new one, but I haven't met him yet. It's definitely a small world because the last place he lived was in Howard County. I bet we have some mutual friends on facebook. Hopefully we will all get along.
Dan has a two week break. That means he's cooking dinner tonight, I'm excited. :)
We got a package from each of our families on Friday, within a couple hours of eachother. Now we have a ton of candy, which we're rationing, even though I would rather eat it all at one time and be sad later. Eating one fun size candy bar just makes me sad, but it's a whole lot better than no candy bar. We got some fall decorations too, which I hung up in our apartment, I would put a picture up but I'm at work and don't have it here and our VPN isn't working at our apartment so I can't get on facebook or my blog at home. We're both doing well, enjoying the nice weather this week, compared to the horrible coldness last week. We're also having a Lord of the Rings extended edition marathon, fun stuff.
Oh! And I got my passport back! The visa is good until the beginning of April, so that helps, and we are going to try to go to a church service on Saturday for the first time.
I love hearing updates from people, so if you want to update me on your life you can email me or send me a facebook message (my email is on my facebook page).
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