It has been a very long time since I have posted and I am sorry, my life is very busy this semster. My week normally looks like this : Monday teach and then the night off to chill out and get ready for the "meat" of my week. After Monday I am done with 25% of my work week. Next we have Tuesday...all 4th grade very draining some weeks then we have dinner and what we call sermon Tuesday! I love sermon Tuesday, the WEFLS gang gets together and we listen to a sermon and then have a discussion about it. We also help keep each other accountable for quiet time and things like that. I am now 50% done with my work week. Here we go Wednesday...this is my long day. I have four classes 3 of which are before lunch so by lunch time I am ready for my bowl of soup (we have soup at every meal we don't have drinks so this replaces that). Then a quick nap (nap time everyday!) and I teach a class after lunch (Class 6 Grade 3 hapens to be a favorite of mine). Wednesday night I eat a quick dinner in my apartment and run back down stairs for QQ Club (English Corner). It is from 6:30-8pm. By bedtime I am ready for sleep, I am now 84% done with my week. Thursday rolls around and I grudingly at times get out of bed, I have 2 classes before lunch and then I am 100% done with my work week. I take an extra long nap and come back for office hours followed by dinner with the gang and a movie. Fridays I only have office hours so I Skype home and catch up on things, I also prepare for the next week a little (most of that happens Saturday and Sunday). Then the weekend is here and it never lasts as long as I want it to! Then before you know it Monday is back and I am at 0% again.
I say all this so you know what kind of crazy life I live, mind you this is China things change at the spur of the moment, I don't plan too far in advance here. But let me catch you up on the last few weeks of life. We have had a lot and I mean a lot of rain!! According to my friend Aaron its his fault at least for one weekend...I don't think it is. It did pour that weekend pretty hard but it did the same thing the following weekend and I don't think he was in Wuhan. You are probably wondering at this point why the hugs reference and no connection well here it comes. That weekend was not the best in fact the week before hadn't really been the best. When I met Aaron and Matt at the bus stop I was a little down. But it didn't last long I got a giant bear hug from Aaron that really helped more then he will ever know. It got me thinking when I have crazy days here at school I notice that the Friend always sends one of my kids to give me a hug, ususally its one of my twins Angel or Maggie. They find me everyday whether in the school or at lunch and give me a big hug, it has become a reason for living. I have found that this semeester more and more of my students are very affectionate with me either by hug or some of my boys like high fives, a few even hold my had and walk with me to class. This makes my heart so happy, I want them to feel the love of the Father and I feel like some of my hard work is finally paying off. My blessings come in the form of love from my kids which at times is my pep talk for the day from the Friend. I know this post is rather short and I owe you all a long one but for the sake of time (and the fact our internet is not always reliable) I will post this for now. See you all in 12 weeks!!
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