Wednesday August 19, 2009 We made it home safely. We had a full day of travels—24 hours. We arrived in Seattle Monday afternoon about 1:30 pm and once we got through customs and security we had about two hours until we needed to be back for our departure to Dallas. We quickly bought our bus tour tickets and we went to downtown Seattle. It was beautiful! We didn't have much time so we saw as much as we could. We got to see the fisherman's market, the pier...

Monday August 17, 2009 I ended up falling asleep last night early. I didn't make it, but I am glad I got a good night's rest. I woke up for the first time by myself at 7 this morning and I finished up packing and tried to organize everything to fit in my suitcase. We are on the plane right now. We have been in the air for about 7 ½ hours and we have about 3 more to go. It has gone by fast. I updated my blog, watched a movie, slept a little, visited with m...

Sunday August 16, 2009 This morning we went to the church service in our hotel on the second floor. Many of the people who we had met at the Friday night fellowship go there and asked if we would sing some songs for them. We gladly accepted. The people were so grateful they were all taking pictures afterwards and got so excited. We said our goodbyes to all the sweet people who we had spent the last couple Friday nights with and then we went last minute shopp...

Saturday August 15, 2009 We met in the lobby at 7 this morning and headed off to the Summer Palace, the place where the Empress and Emperor would go for relaxation/vacation. It was beautiful and also overwhelmingly huge. I couldn't believe only a couple of people lived there. There was a huge lake in the center of all the bridges and buildings. It was very pretty. Grace then took us to see the Olympic Sites. We had to be ready to eat dinner with the SMIC s...

Friday August 14, 2009 Today was probably one of the hardest days I have ever had!We had a fun day today, we colored, watched movies, had recess/free time, and had a party at the end of the day.With about half an hour left in the day my T.A. began to cry and then on of my girls, Liu Yong started as well.I didn't think I was going to cry, but as soon as my first student started to leave waterfalls poured out of me.I couldn't stop crying.Parents and the kids wer...