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Published: December 6th 2007
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I cannot believe that my time in China is finally coming to end...
After being here for 6 months, its hard to say bye to a place I've become so attached to and to people I really will miss. It's like when you first come to college, you meet wonderful friends, finally become acquainted with the school... just to leave. forever. The thing is, to many people they think, oh you just went abroad to China, no big deal! you had fun just like everyone else that went abroad.So hurry tell me about the fun things you did! How was the Great wall? How was holding pandas? All just to impress their ears, I will compete with others that were abroad to tell them about the great things I saw and done. But will people care, or will people have enough time to hear beyond that? Bout the more, the extremely so much more "stuff" behind the pretty picture?! Even writing, I cannot even convey what I have learned, what I have seen, what I have encountered. I don't even know how to organize it all. I also fear not knowing what to say because I'm afraid to waste people's
time. Explanations become distorted, memories fuzzy, and pretty soon... almost forgotten, and I don't want to forget at all. Not only do I not want to forget, I don't want this "head knowledge" to become useless if I don't change my character, my attitude. Like Mrs. Chou said in her email to me, "If God has put the vision in you heart who dare has the guts to say it's too large of a vision. Lets see how God works and moves in your life!" Amen Mrs. Chou, she always has to right words to say... 😊
What can I say? I dunno. I'm confused. I guess, these last two weeks admist my finals, I need to just sit. think. Organize my thoughts. Anyhow....I guess I'll update on what I have done thus far, the last things I've done....
-we had our final championship game the other day, and the boys and girls international team won! It was a really exciting game... lots of people there watching, cheering, reminds me of high school sports... ahh, so much fun. the sadness is, I dunno if I will ever see those girls again unless I somehow manage to go to
dominica which is ha, doubtful. They have such great energies,I love them so much. It's been so much fun to play with them. wish I took some photos..
-As I meet with Jade for one of the last times of our tutoring sessions, I'm really amazed at how her english has gotten extremely better. From the beginning, she could not even speak, only a "hello, I am Jade." Her pronouciation, her vocab, has improved substancially and that excites me so much! I'm so proud of her! I will miss her...
-This thursday will probably be the last time or second to last times I go to the Rural Women's Shelter to teach. I really hope the best for them, their passion and energy to learn english is moving. I hope they will continue to improve.
-The softball team has been interesting and a learning experience. I'm thankful that they have been so open to me, even though my chinese sucked and I could barely communicate with them, they welcomed a stranger unto their school team and were really kind to me.
-no more bad experiences at the gym! lets just say, the gym I joined here
does not make sanitary an importance. but its been fun, taking kickboxing, yoga classes with a chinese instructor and working out with the chinese girls that are funny to watch sometimes. hehe. real entertaining.
-We went on our last "TBC sponsored trip" (actually a while ago, Oct.28-Nov3rd, I just forgot to update). It was so wonderful to see the prettiest place in China. What we did there: climb Yao Hill (ascending by cable-car and descending by tabaggon), Li River cruise with Cormorant fishing show, YangShuo, Bike to Moon hill (i chose to motorcycle, my dream!), climb Moon Hill, and water cave, mud bath, rockclimb, LongSheng Dazhai Village, visit Xiaozhai Village school, Hike up to Rice Terraced Fields, Hot-spring resort Hotel, and finally take a flight back to Beijing. There's a lot to say about that, but I'll just show pictures.
-This weekend I went hiking/camping on the Great Wall. Though I've been to 3 different parts of the wall already, this part of the wall is what you see in pictures. It was so much fun. I was suppose to go with me, my roommate, my 3 good guy friends, but it ended up just being me and
my two guy friends. What we did was hike for 4 hours (soo tiring, straight up and straight down, and let me tell you try keeping up with a guy who is double my height and diego who is like crazy in shape. my little legs were scurrying haha) we also slept on the wall (its illegal) we got caught actually, long story short, basically they just called us crazy for sleeping on the wall when there is snow surrounding us, and its freezing! anyhow, it was cold, I couldn't sleep at all, but it was a great experience. the scenery was so gorgeous, and the stars at night? unbelievable.
So that's about it, there's been a lot of other good experiences and places I've visited but these are the good highlights I guess 😊 Next week is finals, so its been rough writing papers and stuff. I'm really excited about my topic for my History of Christianity in China paper. I'm writing about the Sanctioned vs. underground church in China so it'll be really interesting because this is a topic I'm really interested in especially since I've been attending both churches on sunday so I can learn more
about that.
So the question is, will I ever come to china again? the hope is, yes. Nevertheless, I do not know where God will lead me or what his plans are for my future. I sure hope to! I dont think that God puts visions and puts a burden upon your heart for things and people for no reason or for it to just dissappear to nothing. I know I do not want to do just "short-term missions" I'm only interested in long-term. When and for sure if that is true, I dont know! I will just have to surrender to God to let him lead. I just hope I don't disappoint myself or others...which is usually what ends up happening, I feel.
anyhow, I guess I will see people soon! I arrive on my birthday, so it'll be a good celebration being back home and being 21 for sure.. ha.
😊
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