Wednesday July 29, 2009Today was such a joyous day! We had another government inspection and had to vacate the school, but they organized it where all the classes could watch a movie in the church in our hotel. We watched Mulan and it was really neat to be able to understand a lot of the Chinese history in the movie because we have either been to certain places that are in the movie such as the Great Wall or have been learning about since we have been here. After...

Tuesday July 28, 2009Today we read a simplified version of the Good Samaritan since we are emphasizing love and caring in our class especially during Valentine's week. I am keep 1 Corinthians 13:4-8 on the board all week and the kids and I read it together. It was really sweet to read what my kids have been writing in their journals. We have been doing a lot of journaling on love and many of the kids have been writing lines from 1 Corinthians and God is love. If ...

Monday July 27, 2009We introduced Valentine's day to our classes today. We went over Valentine's vocabulary and what love is (1 Corinthians 13:4-8). We are going to have a fast week this week. My class has open house on Wednesday as well as another government inspection in the morning so we will watch a movie, our class field trip on Thursday, and our Valentine's party on Friday. My teammate who had kidney stones had his procedure today, but everything went great...

Sunday July 26, 2009What an amazing day! We left our hotel at 6am and we took a van and arrived around 7:30am. We went to the Mutianyu Section of the Great Wall and took a chair lift to the entrance of that section. Because we went so early it was not crowded at all and the weather was fantastic! We started climbing at around 8:30am and we had until 10:30am to climb to the top and back. The whole climb was my guess around at least 2 miles of stair climbing. It wa...

Saturday July 25, 2009We woke up this morning to go to the Great Wall, but unfortunately our teammate had been at the hospital the night before for kidney stones so we were concerned about Him and postponed our trip until tomorrow. He has his procedure on Monday, but he said he was feeling a lot better since he slept all day and had pain killers. He is planning on climbing the Great Wall tomorrow so it sounds like he is doing much better, praise God! Some of the ...