We made it back from China yesterday!! It was an amazing trip, I LOVED it! It was a long month, so I will give you a photo tour. I hope you enjoy it! 🙂 (*some pics from Stacy)
I will begin with our first 2 weeks at a cultural exchange program. We took Chinese cultural classes at a university in the mornings and in the afternoons we held English corners so the students could practice their English.
I believe it is appropriate to begin a photo tour with breakfast. This was our delicacy of choice many a morning. It is called boutza (phonetically) and it is steamed bread with a meat and/or veggie filling…delicious!
Welcome to calligraphy class! Here I am, hard at work. 🙂
Here is a look at the English teaching building on campus…nice landscaping!
Now it’s time for a little exercise in the park, did everyone bring their fans?? 😉
Here are a few from our next location. We took a 24 hour train ride to the Sechuan province to visit some “family”.
Traveling on trains is the way to go! The sleeper trains rock you right to sleep. 🙂
We got to take in the sites with our friends and saw a Sechuan Opera. It was the real deal with the flipping face masks and all!
As if the Chinese food wasn’t good enough, we got to go to a REAL Tex-Mex place! disclaimer: this does NOT mean that I don’t want Lupe’s the second I get home! 🙂
I can’t post too many pictures of our friends and family in China, but rest assured that we had plenty to do. We attended the “expat’s” family fellowship, we held another English corner for a group of Muslim minorities in China, we had LOTS of delicious meals with brothers and sisters and so much more. It was an amazing opportunity to see God at work in China. His Good News is spreading! 🙂
Our next destination was Beijing! We got to stay for a few days before taking another train back to Hong Kong.
Here is one of the numerous countdown clocks to the summer 2008 Olympics. China is VERY proud to be hosting this time!
This is the Summer Palace, really cool place to visit!
This is the infamous Tiananmen Squre. China has SO much history!
And last, but CERTAINLY not least: The Great Wall of China! I know it sounds cliche, but these pictures seriously do not do it justice!
I’ll close my photo tour with my beloved team! I love Team 61!!!! 🙂
So, we are now in Hong Kong and the World Race officially ends one week from today. I can hardly believe it, but it’s really drawing to a close. We are taking this time to try to debrief all that we have seen and done. It has been an amazing 11 months. I learned so much about the character of our Heavenly Father and a bunch about myself! It’s time to turn our hearts homeward and get used to the idea of life back in the States. It will certainly be an adjustment from what we have come from, but I’m excited to come home! Please keep us in your prayers this week as we wrap up and start saying our goodbyes.
Thank you again for your prayers and comments! 🙂
