The Beauty of Spring

I LOVE spring. I love it. The weather is nice. The sun is out. Flowers are blooming. Here in China the blossoms and beautiful. As we walk to class there is one area that is gorgeous! It's a cute little trail with purple flowers scattered on the floor and trees in bloom with countless white blossoms. Everytime I walk by there I smile. It's simply perfect. This...

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A Spiritual Shanghai

When we heard that our church was having a district conference in Shanghai we immediately jumped on the opportunity. We started planning and after many failed attempts finally got tickets purchased and a hostel booked. We set out Friday after school and survived the K train. K trains are the worst. In fact I am sitting on one right now. They are slow,...

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From the Words of Nick

Nick is a volunteer in my group. He is also a talented and hilarious writer. If you want to know what teaching is really like. Please read. Even if you don't, read it anyway. Laughter is good for the soul.http://nickinnanjing.blogspot.sg/2015/03/tales-of-teacher-nick.html?m=1Go to his blog. Follow it. Here are his words:Tales...

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IKEA

Remember how we found ikea in Lithuania and it reminded us of home? Guess where we went today? And it made me just as happy and just as excited. First stop? Ice cream of course. And when we found out it was 1 yuan... Aka 15 cents you know we double fisted that. And the best part? Putting the coins in the machine to fill your own cone!Except...

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Lighting Up China

We heard the lantern festival was supposed to be pretty amazing with some sites saying 50k people and others reporting 500k people. Well, if that many people go then it must be pretty cool. Some girls thought it would be the lanterns that you light and send into the sky so they went and bought them. We knew it wasn't that kind of festival but we wanted...

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Birthday Buffet

We were invited to a Chinese Birthday. Of course we said yes and were super excited. We waited at the gate at 3:30 and Arthur's mom came to pick us up. We divided into cars including a Porche Cayenne, a BMW 7 series and so forth. Then the caravan of expensive cars started on a 40 minute journey. We arrived at what would be compared to a club house...

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