Afternoon strolls.... are SO good for the heart, and mind, and everything else.

Teaching went a LITTLE better today. I tried to take more time and put more effort into my preparation. We try so hard to incorportate the words and make it fun at interesting at the same time but it just seems to backfire. The chinese teachers in the rooms with us just think we are insane Americans that just like to hear ourselves talk....which is certainly not the case. Some of the kids are just straight up evil. They just want to spite and wreak havoc. There is one kid, Jackson.... HA. This kid is a hoot. He lives with his gradparents becase his parents are in the U.S. and he was named after Michael Jackson. And it's funny because he actually dresses like him and he's always doing elaborate dance moves. It's hilarious. But anyways, him and this other kid in his class Morris are on a mission to drive us so crazy that we CRACK. I swear. OH! and another one... William is always doing Kung Fu moves... ON US! He doesn't just do them, he uses them on us! :) Oh boy But there are some angels too, thank goodness too. They keep us sane. This little boy Honey is my favorite little boy in the entire school. HANDS DOWN. He has the tiniest face with the most massive smile to go with it. Annd it never leaves his face. Rowdy or not though, they are who is making this such a great experience for me.

Funny. So last night I got an email from Tarah telling me I need a picture of a random cute old asian man. So, walking to the bus stop this morning, I saw this old man across the street.


He had a bird cage and he had hung it on the tree branch above him and he was just staring at it, it made my day, a great way to start off! Then at about noon on our way home from school, waiting for the bus at the fruit market I saw this sweet old man riding a bike loaded with sugar cane on the back, and he was selling it.

I fell in love with him the second I spotted him across the street. So great.

Being here with our program we have a few rules. Which are clearly for our safety... like most are, but... really? really. Anyways, one of them is that we have to always be with at least one other person in the group during the day, and 3 after nine unless it's in our complex.
So they're good, good rules, but it doesn't matter who you are, I think everyone needs alone time.
I don't know how missionaries do it :) So I usually take at least one walk a day all by myself around our complex. here are some fun pictures of the area I live in. It's beautiful. Very green.









So I'm kind of loosing my voice. Actually no, I LOST my voice and it makes it really hard for me to belt my music since we all know I really love that. Oh! and we had real pudding tonight,

not the watered down stuff I made a couple nights ago. Anyways, the only reason I'm blogging about this is because I had no idea how much I would miss good ol' chocolate.

*I'm talking to Tarah at 9:30. I'M SO EXCITED.