Thursday August 13, 2009 Today was performance day!We had our final rehearsal this afternoon—went great!Today was also one of my students, Peter's, birthday so we had a little party for him after rehearsal.His mom brought a cake and we all sang to him.It was his last day because he was going to Shanghai to be with his dad for his birthday so I had to say goodbye to him after school.The end of the year ceremony went so good and my kids did awesome!Nicola had ...

Wednesday August 12, 2009 We had another rehearsal and we will have one more tomorrow.We finished Narnia and I was so thankful for the response the kids had to the movie.I thought Narnia might be a little too much for them violence wise, but they really wanted to see it and I had the privilege of sharing the relation between Aslan and God and the sacrifice He has made for us.I got the impression that the kids understood and they really enjoyed it. Nicola an...

Tuesday August 11, 2009 All of the classes have their final performance on Thursday night so we all had our first rehearsal this afternoon to give the kids a taste of what it will be like to perform on stage and to have a large audience.It went well.We still need quite a bit of practice since we just started today, but they did great!We are singing a song about the colors, how are you, where do you live, and He's got the whole world in His hands!After the rehe...

Monday August 10, 2009 Today I introduced Thanksgiving to my class and we talked about what we were thankful for and what blessings are.I read when Jesus fed the 5000.The kids were really interested and began asking questions again!It was a privilege to explain to them how faithful and good God is!Melissa, my roommate, and I went to her student, Jack's home again and his parents took us out to a nice restaurant.The father had asked us the previous week if we l...

Sunday August 9, 2009 We got up early this morning because we had numerous places to go.We first went to an outlet mall to buy umbrellas because it was supposed to rain heavily.Then we went the zoo to see the pandas.We saw about 8 pandas, they were so adorable!After seeing the pandas we went to the International Church of Beijing and a really neat thing happened. Side note:This past fall I had been praying if God wanted me to go back to Honduras where I had...