: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!
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its not too cold here surprisingly! it was 60 today and is supposed to be like 68 tomorrow! I hope it stays fairly warm this winter after the big blizzard from last winter!
ReplyDeleteJulie I miss you! I was just thinking about Renee's wedding, and how our group will all be there but you. (and dan if you consider the whole group, but I was just talking about the girls). It's so sad. Why did you have to go to china for a year!
I'm glad you got brownies though!
Since you have a 6 week break, and I have a 6 week break... we should skype or something sometime over break!
I miss you!
brownies are good :)
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