Two Lefts Do Make a Right!!

This past months hasn't been full of too many adventures but Ive still loved life in China as much as ever. Finding out more and more stuff about myself, others, and relationships with so many different kinds of people.

I am so blessed to be where I am right now. Being influenced by so many people of different culture and background. Different ways of thinking and doing things. A different language spoken out of every mouth and different ways that love has been spoken. No one can live this for me. This is my time to live this dream, and that is what I am trying to do.

I get to experience something not too many people get to experience in their lifetime and I am truely grateful for it. I get to breathe in the poluted air and love it. I get to taste the bitter food and crave it. I get to live with rodents and fear for my well being, but at the same time find it awfully amusing. I get to put my life in iminent danger everyday riding my bike to school on the chaotic roads of China a scream with glee. I have the opportunity to shake hands with monks and get hopelessly lost in rural town China.

I get to live in an apartment made of hand laid bricks mortered together with water and dirt and a little cement mix covered witha a think layer of drywall and still look forward to coming home each day. I get to say "hello" back to each and every asian that is excited to be able to speak the little english they know in the small amount of time they have of passing us. I get to cross the street like I am playing frogger and I am all out of quarters. I get to sleep on a bed you would only think was made out of metal springs and nothing else and still be thankful I even have a bed.

But the best thing of all is that I get to spend 5 days out of every week with the BEST part of China: their children!! The kids are so excited to see us whenever we show up at school, walk into their class to teach, come to sit down at their table for lunch, pull out a camera, or even say hello and smile at them. They swarm us with their love and even though we cant exactly speak eachothers language, you know that they love you with out words. That is something I will deeply deeply miss when the time comes for me to leave. These kids have made my life and my trip isn't even done yet. I came to teach these kids english, but they have been teaching me so much more and they continue to do so every day.

Rat Hunting Adventure

Gotta love China with all of its new adventures around every corner. The morning of this video, the boys swore they saw what looked like a rats tail in the toilet. We didnt see much else of anything for the rest of the day so we let it go. Well that evening, to our surprise, and to some peoples horror, we found the little vermin in our apartment. Armed with a butcher knife and a mini ironing board, the boys went to work. Mister Jace courageously went after this animal while Brad, bravely helped get the animal into harms way of the butcher knife. After the whole ordeal, I can only imagine what the whole apartment complex was thinking. You would have thought the whole lot of us were being murdered. This was a our first experience with uninvited guests in our apartment and Im sure it wont be the last. This video contains the death of animals and blood so please be warned!