You know it’s cold when you can see your own breath. China is cold, cold and cold. I have spent the last 7 months in at least 70-90 degree weather, I am use to hot. We flew into Hong Kong and I thought it was cold there HaHa! After getting through immigration in Hong Kong we took vans from the airport to a city that was a little farther north in China. It got colder. We stayed in a hotel room for the night. We got there just in time to eat dinner and go shopping for winter clothes because most of us didn’t have a thing to wear. I think I was the worst of them all…I had nothing. No pants, no long sleeve shirts and one pair of socks. I was freezing!! I didn’t have that much luck but I did find one pair of sweat pants and a jacket pull over thing. I am hoping to find some jeans at some point but it doesn’t look like there is much hope because everyone in China is stick thin.
China is not what I thought it would be. I guess I expected there to be more people, not as cold and more exciting. I have been looking forward to China the most. It was the one Asian country that I could not wait to go to. Once I got here I found that it was just another country. It is not going to be an easy month for me but one thing that I do know is that God is going to give me strength to get through it. God is going to be there every step of the way. God is my strength when I am weak.
We are working at a wellfare center this month. The children that we work with have disabilities mentally and physically. They range from birth to young adult. These kids have been abandoned because they are not wanted by their parents or by society. Our contact has come in and has started giving hope to them. Showing the children that they are loved and that they are wanted. We have come along side them this month to do the same. There is an infant room that has about 25 babies. In the Preschool room there is about 20 or so and then there is an older girl room and an older boy room which combined have about 40 or so.
I work in the older boys room along with Drew. On day one of being here we had a tour of the center and were told to be in prayer and ask God which age group he wanted us to work with this month. As soon as I walked into the older boys room I knew that was where I was suppose to be. They are now my boys! They are little rascals that is for sure but at the end of the day I still love them.
*In order to protect my self and the organization I worked with in China no pictures are aloud to be posted on the internet. I have plenty to share when I get home 🙂
Love
Jaime
