Free Beer!

May update time!

First of all I can't wait until summer! It's going to be amazing...great family and friends, great food, clean air, great summer job teaching tennis and swimming, short trip up to Minnesota and a great road trip back to Colorado with friends to see Fun at Red Rocks, mountain time, and sunny days!

I'm ready to take a break from China life, and also excited to come back to China next year and do His work, and to do bigger and better things, improving on what I've learned from this year.

This month I've still been recovering from foot surgery. I have almost 100% movement back, almost all flexibility back, and I've been walking with all my body weight on my foot for a week. It's still sore, and not back to normal though, but in 1 month I think it will feel normal! Hopefully! This weekend we hosted our FOC friends from Hangzhou. It was a blast with many random things happening. Firstly we went to a restaurant called "The Toilet Restaurant." It's theme was......wait for it......the bathroom! The seats we toilets, and their food/ice cream came in mini squatty potties (Eastern toilets). I got chocolate ice cream served in a squatty pottie. Pretty hilarious haha The best part was, that when we arrived at the restaurant, a baby was pooping right by the door!!!!! What are the chances??!!! Did the parents know that their kid was pooping next to the toilet restaurant?? We had a good laugh because of that. Afterwards Brian wanted to show us a ridiculous billboard. So we walked a little ways and arrived. It was a 10 foot tall by 30 foot long billboard behind a crayfish street vendor/restaurant. On it were 5 men in jock straps and they were wearing ski boots in the mountains.........wow.......most provocative ad I've ever seen! We also had a good laugh because of this, and the restaurant owner/staff/customers started to gather around us. Our friend Nate King, who is sometimes, or I should say almost all the time, crazy! (In a good way). He has a motto, "Suns out guns out." Even though it was nighttime he still took off his shirt to get a picture by the billboard along with some others. Well.......the restaurant owner said "Free beer!" The staff began taking out some tables and setting them up outside by the curb, and then they brought out two large beer 'vases.' They weren't kegs, but large glass containers. So our group of around 10 got free beer, crayfish, and food! We sang Christian songs and American songs, then all the Chinese customers sang Chinese songs in return. A fun competition.

We left and hit the hay. The next day we enjoyed a birthday celebration of Adam and Sherry's 3 year old at Aloha, an American restaurant with AMAZING food. I had a Big Kahuna, which was a burger in between 2 grilled cheese sandwiches. Mmmmmmmmmmm! We left, and spent 2 hours by foot, bus, and motorbike taxi, to get to East lake. We walked around, enjoyed the views, and headed back to Sarah and Nathan's for a call day party. Four of our American teachers here received calls from our synod, to teach at a Chr-stian school somewhere in the USA. Call day is very intense, because no one knows where in the country they are going, or what age they will teach. We stayed up until 3am and watched the live stream online. It was a great chrch service, and our teachers received their calls. The teachers all definitely trusted in G-d for comfort in knowing that wherever they go, it is part of His plan for them. It was a fun night, and a life-changing night for the 4 teachers leaving China to teach at Chr-stian schools across the USA.

Today is hot, it will only get more hot. This week I also went to the 25th anniversary of my school party...thing. Very fancy. Visited other Maron International Education Kindergarten's in Wuhan, they are all extremely fancy, nice, and definitely for wealthy families. That's all for now! Gd's blssings!