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| So after a
super long absence from Xanga I've decided to pop back on and start
doing some posts. I have some really cool news. I will be
returning to China with ELIC in August to be a team leader. I'll
be leading a team of 4-8 21-26 year olds. While there we will
teach english and take advantage of opportunities to tell our chinese
friends of the Father's goodness. I haven't recieved any
information on where I'll be stationed, but I am sure it will be
somewhere cool. If you'd be interested in supporting me or would
like to recieve my newsletter please send me your address and I'll put
you on the list. In any case, look forward to more posts in the
future months as I prepare to head out to China!
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| A 3 year old guatemalan girl who was adopted by some people in our
church recently told us something ridiculous. "My parents bought
me, hugged me and put me in a crib." wow adoption is such a
beautiful thing.
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| So I haven't posted in a few months but recent events have prompted me
to send a special shoutout to Steve Irwin the crocidile hunter, who has
just passed away in a freak Sting Ray accident. Let's all take a moment
to remember the guy who loved animals so much he was willing to put
himself at risk in the name of educating the public. Plus he did
some really cool stuff; like wrestling crocs, holding anacondas and
feeding whole chickens to a variety of meat eaters using a simple pole
and chain. In any case I am pretty sure we'll all miss that crazy
Aussie and his american wife, especially when we compare him to that
jackass Steve Corwin who is the next best thing on the Animal planet!
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| I'll be leaving China this next week, and after 10 months of adventure
and hilarity I'm really going to miss this place. China is
awesome! Bottom line is if you have the means to live here for
awhile you don't have a choice, you're coming. The top five best
things about China include:
1. Chinglish: When english is translated into an
incomprehensible mess. i.e. I now own a t-shirt that says "E
Fashion Is A Life For You Life Is Like The Tree.
2. Chinese People: There are many stereotypes about chinese
people that are sometimes true and other times not true but whatever
people say Chinese people are generally speaking hilarious.
3. Bargaining: The great thing about bargaining is that
people yell the craziest things at you to buy their stuff and even
crazier things when you don't. Once someone yelled at me in the
hopes that I would want to buy underwear "Hello, Underwear!" And
once when I was walking past a booth in a market someone yelled out to
me "Hello handsome man, you want to buy shirt for your
girlfriend?" I said "No" Then she tells me "You are not
handsome and you have little hair."
4. Language: Chinese is sweet and you can say some really
funny things like I'm so hot I'm going to die or I hate you to death or
I'm starving to death...
5. Chinese food: Mandarin cuisine is so awesome but I do miss the good old cantonese in Chinatown.
So here is my last post from China but thanks to friends and family for
the support it really helped me this year. Some really cool
things happened at our school that I can't wait to tell you guys about
when I get back home next week.
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| Every year at my birthday I look back and see how things in my life
have gone ridiculously fast and this year I realized that if I'm not
careful I'll become an old man and finally my age and physical
appearance will match (my beard and male pattern baldness make many
people think I'm over thirty!!!).
Anyways this birthday is turning out pretty good. I was given a
cool chinglish card from my friends John Mark and Sue Perdue and the
guys on my time gave me a wallet size photo of Jon Dodd and a Yo-Yo,
both of which are super sweet. Plus my friend sent me a picture
of a hilarious asian cell phone advertisement by LG which says I
chocolate you. So far this is going to be a birthday to
remember.
Plus I had a realization a few days ago thinking about my birthday and
realized that People who were born in the same hours as I in a place
like China will tell me that their birthdays are a day ahead of mine
because we are around 13 hours ahead of central time. So I was
able to celebrate my birth a whole 13 hours earlier than I would have
otherwise.
Anyways hope everyone is doing well
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