Cleanliness is next to Godliness

On our way to school we always pass this construction site, (well there are construction sites all over the place but this particular area has tons of buildings going up) and I realized that all of the buildings were being constructed with bamboo! We saw this a lot in Hong Kong but I had just let it slip to the back of my mind because it is so common here, and we see it a lot. Our tour guide in Hong Kong told us that the Bamboo is so incredibly strong that it is not uncommon to use it in the construction of new buildings. I think that is so phenominal! And it looks so neat too... just a great thing I didn't want to forget.

Today was the last day of winter camp at the school. My first class was absolutely wild. It was the oldest class and they had me goin' :) Two of my kids, Aiden and Justin have this infatuation with slapping all of the teachers butts and for some reason, I know they are only 5 but it just drives me crazy when Aiden and Justin do it. They are definitely two of the biggest boys in the class... Aiden is so solid. He is about Kaleb's size and he is 5. Ummm, yes. Anyways, he and Justin are so clingy and ..... agablugaboo! :) I must just say though, how sad I am because I got so attached to some of those kids and because most of them are not ILP kids, we most likely won't be seeing them again. So sad. But it is kind of fun knowing that we have a week off and we are one week closer to going to BEIJING! I am so excited. We've kind of been planning our agenda day to day for when we will be there and every time we talk about it I kind of do one of those, you're so excited you want to scream so you scream inside type of things, and then I just get more excited. :)

Cleanliness is next to Godliness; the namesake for this blog. Oh... how true this is. Yesterday we finally got the other bed into the other apartment so Shaila was able to move out of our living room and into that apartment. Since she has been here, it's just been kind of crazy with stuff everywhere and very cluttered, so we haven't really been able to officially get organized and moved in until today. So we came home... and had a cleaning party. We plugged in Abby's ipod dock, CRANKED IT, and went to town! We spent the afternoon with that, and then enjoyed the rest of our day in a clean, organized little apartment and it feels so good. Ah.