Sorry, again, I would usually write blog posts at work during my crazy long breaks, but I'm not working there until March so my schedule's been all thrown off.
Dan and I had a nice relaxing Christmas. We ended up with three new movies so we watched some of those. We now have a kindle and a spiffy case which is useful when you're on the subway or a bus for awhile, which is pretty much every day for me. You can't get to very many parts of Beijing without taking a bus or the subway, and buses take a little while because there's almost always traffic, so the kindle is amazing. Dan's Mom also sent us lots and lots of food, which is not gone yet and it's tasted amazing. Mint brownies, shortbread, cheese, fudge, maple syrup, and some candy. I didn't think it was possible to send home-made stuff overseas, but I guess it is. I'm looking forward to making my Mom send us stuff *cough cough*.
We're the type of people who would rather stay home and watch tv than go out on new years, so on new years we DID stay up until midnight (two hours later than usual) and toasted the new year...and then went to bed...Someone was also setting off fireworks around 11 Saturday morning which didn't make much sense to me.
Right now I'm tutoring a 13 year old half Ukrainian half Chinese girl every weekday for two hours so she can get into an International school. She speaks really good English, but just has trouble with some grammar. I tutor two Chinese kids on Sunday afternoons, and a girl during the week and I'm doing a Saturday class one more time this Saturday. I'm also going to be doing a winter camp and help primary school students write speeches for a competition. So I'm a lot less busy than when I was teaching, but I feel like I'm traveling a lot more. I was really worried about work before but God has completely blessed us and worked everything out (in a matter of days). Basically every place I applied to did nothing, (I was also telling people during this time that God wanted me to chill, but I guess I didn't want to) besides the winter camp. I got all my jobs from this other place that has Americans (and they're also Christians) working there.
Dan has a week off because it's in between semesters. We decided to compromise and play a computer game together instead of fighting over the computer, so that will probably be a lot of our week next week.
It's also FREEZING over here. I can't wait for spring. It's also really really dry, 0% chance of precipitation. every day.
I want to write a blog post about random things about China, but I'm sure if it'll be a good post, or just me ranting about random things.
why are you not teaching again til march?
ReplyDeletemiss you! especially today!!
The students have a long break because of the Spring Festival and their next "semester" doesn't start until sometime in Feb but the foreign teachers don't start until the last day in Feb. I miss you too! How was the shower?
ReplyDeleteoh wow. that is a long break.
ReplyDeleteseasons and days are so opposite of ours! you're going to be feeling weird when you come home cause everything will be backwards again! lol.
The shower was fun. Good food, laughter, and friends. (except for you of course. :( ) She got a ton of lingerie, but also some nice things she asked for off of her registry, and a few people were saying they were going to get her something else for the wedding present. (like more practical stuff off her registry).