China was a country I was neither anticipating nor dreading. I went in thinking it was just another place God wanted me to show some love. I did not expect to fall in love with the people so much. It honestly isnt a country I will miss greatly. But I will be YARPING (praying) about the people for a long time.
I helped out at a school. Its not my first school on the race, but its one I loved. Everything from helping in the library on off periods, to tutoring second grade, and sometimes teaching a real second grade class by myself when the teacher had to work on report cards.
Lunches were spent eating the best food in all of China and getting to know our fellow teachers better. I loved learning more about their lives both here and in their home country.
After lunch I helped tutor a student in geometry. He was a sweet kid, really smart too. After getting over the fear of teaching a subject in hadn’t taken since highschool, we had a lot of fun.
April was crazy busy (did I mention we planted a garden?), more so than Cambodia. However God kept it light. My team and I all meshed really well. Even tho there were days when people were home sick, and we got to school only to realize they needed us to teach fourth grade and high school math (we did not have enough people for this), God kept our energy level high and gave our spirits peace.
Oh did I mention that I got a new team for China? They pulled some people that had teaching experience to help out at an upper level school. So they redid teams.
Meet Gospel Globe Trotters (GGT):
We grew a lot this month and had a blast!! I will always miss this city I got to visit.Rebecca and I started talking about coming back during the summer when its green 🙂
Fun Facts from the month:
23rd Birthday! Thanks team for an awesome dinner! 🙂
My first passover sadder,Thanks to Becca!
I have a few communities back home that I need to visit
Jen (who has an amazing story!) Went from being scared to be alone in a classroom to teaching 4th grade all by herself.
I got to help build clocks with an awesome man who really has a heart for the kids he teaches.
Fun Foods eaten so far:
Thi stiled garlic chickin, with a HUGE side of rice
Meto-pi – basically black rice left out to dry
Grasshopper
Meilworm (i think)
All the korean food I got to try!
Trantula, scorpions, waterbug kabob
Ant donut
Cricket and silkworm stirfry
Pho – the best breakfast in all of vietnam
Vietnamese pancakes (not actually pancakes, still not sure what it was)
All of the sauses in Asia, katchup is NOT needed!
The best semi korean style sandwitches ive ever had!
Sea cucumber
Bluebearry tarts from Bejing
