Friday, March 16, 2007

...be the center of our lives...

It's been a super busy week, but a great one! Thank thank thank him! I've learned so much through struggles, rejoiced in victories small and great, and actually seen progress in language!

So I like to pretend like these goodies from the bakery are LITTLE DEBBIES!

Every Friday we have a calligraphy class! Our teacher is not afraid to call me out when I hold my hand incorrectly or slouch in my seat while writing!

YEP...I was actually concentrating that hard on making straight lines with the brush! It's all about the baby steps!
Joy was so excited about her work...she hung it on the fridge when we got home!

And after warming up with the straight lines, we moved on to this:


SIKE! Our teacher wrote our names for us!

Oh...and no day is complete without making a stop by what I call the "Kit Kat store!" I can't find kit-kats anywhere, but this little store outside of campus sells them!

Sunday, March 11, 2007

That's gonna leave a mark!

We began language school this week! We were SO excited about starting school Monday, but boy were we in for a surprise! All of our classmates are from another country in Asia, and have been studying our new language for much longer than us! The good thing is that to communicate with them we have to use the language b/c they know only a few words in English! Thankfully by the end of the week our teachers realized how far behind the rest of the class we actually are! So in addition to our regular schedule we'll be studying w/ our teachers in the afternoon as well! Woohoo...30 hours a week of language school! I'm so grateful that I know who's in control and who knows exactly what I need...because other wise I'd be feeling a little stressed! Hopefully this will help us pick up language way faster than we expected!Another fun surprise was that our advisor signed us up for a shadowboxing, or Tai Chi, class one night a week! While we were jogging laps around the room at the beginning of class to warm up, I failed to notice an electrical outlet protruding out of the middle of the floor and did a graceful little tumble onto the floor! I was laughing so hard, along with all my classmates and I just kept saying "bu hao yi si" (I'm embarrassed)! I got to redeem myself though, because during the break I figured out how to tell my instructor that I had studied ballet and I ended up getting to lead the class through some of our exercises! How funny! All those years really did pay off Daddy!

After our Tai Chi class we got to meet and watch some guys bust a move! They were break dancing to some old hip-hop/techno songs! It made my heart glad to watch them!