Wow! I've been really bad at blogging recently. It's probably because I'm used to living here now. Every day is different, with new challenges, but I go days at a time not realizing that I'm living in China. Anyways, here are some highlights of December:
1. I got to preach and lead my second ch-rch service! Such a rewarding experience.
2. I shot a new music video!!!!!!!!!!!!! It's done. It'll be on YouTube and Facebook soon :)
3. Had a celebrity-like experience at the first annual English corner (where Chinese people come to speak and practice their English) at Andy's college. Basically it was me, surrounded by 50 people who asked me tons of questions about life in America! They asked me to sing, dance, and share my experiences. So I did! After everyone whipped out their cameras and took tons of pictures of me, and with me. Kind of weird! It would be really annoying being a celebrity after 1 hour or so.........
4. I lead my second adventure study! We spent the day biking to Forest Park, went zip-lining, saw the monkeys, and enjoyed dinner afterwards. The topic was "G-d's Creation." We had 30 minutes of personal dev-tion time, during which myself and Jason (a new friend coming to our studies) got to discuss the G-spel message, the Law, and we had a really deep rel-gious discussion. It was great!
5. Andy and I went on yet another random adventure with our new friend, Liangjun. He told me at lunch one day, that he was going to buy a $94,000 BMW! He also told me I could drive it fast once he got it. AWESOME! So on one Saturday, Andy and I hopped in a taxi with Liangjun, and went on a 1 and a half hour taxi ride to a huge luxury car dealership outside of Wuhan. We hopped into a BMW (the backseats) and Liangjun in the passenger seat. The saleswoman drove us to a long stretch of road with cars, bikes, and people scattered around. Liangjun turned around and said, "Be careful, we go fast." Andy and I were baffled. What could possibly happen? The saleswoman gunned it, and we went from 0-90mph in probably 8 seconds! Felt like we were taking off in a rocket! Then she slammed on the breaks as hard as she could! All of my stuff sitting on the seat flew off as Andy and I flew forward due to the force created by slamming on the brakes. We started laughing really hard, then she did it all again! Flying past mother's carrying their kids, and street food stands, we zoomed by at 100mph in the new BMW. Quite the fun experience. Afterwards Liangjun asked if we rode horses (random, right?) We said a couple times. He then told the taxi driver to take us somewhere. We ended up at a massive horse racing stadium. Since Andy really had to go to the bathroom, Liangjun lead us past guards, red tape, and into the stadium "VIP" area and into the Jockey locker room. We ended up using that bathroom. When we left a group of the midget jockeys got in a big fight! That's something I wasn't expecting to see when I left to go shop for BMWs! We tried to ride some horses nearby, but they were closed so we headed back home. Anyways, it was quite a random day of adventure!
6. Celebrated the end of the world (Dec. 21st 2012, the day the Mayans 'predicted' would be the last day) by going out for drinks, then out for dancing!
7. Had a massive (almost 200 people) Christmas party for all of our Chinese friends. We read some g-spel messages, sang some Chr-stian Christmas songs, and celebrated the real reason for the season with a lot of people who have never heard about Jes-s. May He work in their hearts!
8. I got to be Santa Claus and got paid to do it! Childhood dream come true haha It was at a really fancy restaurant. I went into private dining rooms 'ho ho ho-ing' and handing out candy to people. Took alot of pictures with people too. Really fun! Then ate at the restaurant. Absolutely delicious! Mmmmmmmmmmm
9. F.O.C. Christmas party on Christmas day. Sang all of our favorite Christmas songs together, praising Him for the gift of His Son! Then had a gift exchange, and out for lunch (Papa John's Pizza!) Afterwards some of us watched Christmas movies all night at our apartment :)
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| Our goofy Christmas photo :D |
That's all for December, may He blss you as you remember the real reason for the season!
Steph has one of the best faces, Sophia is also doing well on this one :)
ReplyDeleteIt is so much fun to read about all the stuff you do! Sounds like you are having a great time. Merry Christmas :-D
ReplyDeletei am so glad he brings you to be my friend, and he will bless you all the time
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