Besides the moments marveling at the beautiful weather, taking photos of the gorgeous flowers and conversing with our new “favorite” friends at the convenience store, this is what our week looked like.Monday was our one real “day off.” So we cleaned our room. So dirty! Then Krista spent one hour talking to her folks and one hour talking to her best friend Jana in Santa Rosa. Preston rode his bike into Changping and went grocery shopping. The rest of the day was all about food, movies and rest.
Tuesday we took a trip to see our high-school age students from the February session. Five of us had lunch at our favorite cafeteria and spent a couple of hours catching up with them and encouraging them. Four of the students wi
ll compete in an English speech contest later this month.Wednesday and Thursday women xue zhong wen (we studied Chinese). Jessie, our Chinese TIP director, had coordinated lesson after lesson of a Chinese language program and we got to be the guinea pigs for free! So four of our team members used our break time to get more acquainted with the language of our new home country. It was fun and very rewarding. All of our Chinese co-workers did a great job and we gr
aduated with flying colors. Preston was the class monitor and Krista was the “star” student. As a result, we both gave a speech at the closing ceremony. We’ve been using more and more Chinese every day.Friday and Saturday were session preparation days. We had our April session staff meeting, set up the large group meeting room, got lesson plans ready and counted and cut handouts. We’ll have more than 200 students on campus as of Monday!
Sunday is our day of rest… so excited!
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