Well I know I have not posted on here in a while, sorry. I was waiting for my power adapter to come . Its made in China but it goes to the US just to get mail back to China to me...I know the irony. Well I was so excited to use my computer until ...my vpn decided to not work and my internet is not working at all. So I am back to my iPad for all things internet. sad to say no pictures or videos until I get back to the States then you will be overloaded with them. Its only 5 months away you can wait, it will go fast I promise.
A lot has happened mostly work, I am so excited about sleeping in in the morning!!! My first real day off in 4 months!! In a few weeks I am headed to an orphanage in Guiyang (its south of us) and I am looking forward to it with everything in me. This was one of the things I was planning on doing before I even left the States...I get to go love on some babies that really need it! I love how most of my time in China pretty much involves loving kids I have a great job, exhausting, but pretty epic. I can't go anywhere in this school now without hearing my name. Yesterday I had two boxes from home come and they were kinda heavy, two of my little 3rd graders came up to me 'Becky we can help' they were my little angels that I really needed. The one box kept falling forward and stairs were an issue. They carried the one box up and got to see my apartment. I am always glad for boxes but in this case my greatest gift was their reaction. 'Becky your apartment is so beautiful!' As you walk in you see my wall where I hang up all my art and treasures from my kids, they were impressed that I save it all. They just blessed my little heart, I am going to miss them this summer when I come home as crazy as that sounds. I have a feeling there will be lots of things about China that I miss. This country gets under your skin and you fall in love with the people. They are so gracious and kind here I could say something completely wrong in Chinese and they never jump all over you they help you, I can't say that for my own countrymen. I am realizing how much I am changing in just a year the things I am now so very grateful for that most people in the States never give a second thought about.
I know I say this almost every time I write but the more I give the more I have in love and contentment. I am finding all the things that money cannot buy. Less really is more, with less of me there is more of Him and honestly He lives my life so much better then I do. I am on a crazy amazing adventure that I would never be on on my own. Its pretty cool the places He will take you if you let Him. Yes it can be really scary but it can also be very rewarding if you take the jump. I am looking forward to my break of sleep, lesson planning, loving some orphans, and gearing up for semester number 2. When we get back from break we only have 4 months left in China....I am almost halfway over my contract. To celebrate being in China for 5 months we (Amber, Lulu, and Hollie) went to the dumpling place that we ate at right after we got to China. Then on the way home we saw some wet cement that a dog had walked though along with some human prints so we grabbed a stick and Lulu wrote our names in it. So 'Beck' is now forever a part of China. Well for now this is all I will hopefully write in this again after a few days of sleep...o sleep.
