First week back from Vacation

Some highlights from this week:

We had a grilled cheese party! Yes, you read that right, a grilled CHEESE party!! We found cheese! It was in this deli/import store. I got a block of cheese for 37.5 yuan which is about 6 US dollars…but it was worth it. A bunch of us in the group got together and made grilled cheese. We had a pan and an iron. I tried cooking mine both ways and I prefer the iron. It was fun. Emmaline and Teal brought cream cheese…it was SO good in a grilled cheese! Ahh, best day of my life. I love cheese. And the cheese was melted and perfect, I’m sure Cindy Evans would have LOVED it! Haha! (She hates melted cheese).

Kung Fu was a BLAST! We’ve been learning all these different moves and found out that they all go together in a sequence and yes I feel so cool doing them. We’re all getting Kung Fu outfits and I cannot wait! We’re gonna be so legit!

We watched the Relief Society broadcast on Tuesday which was sweet. Darci and I watched the Saturday morning session of General Conference live because we had slept all day (no sleep on the train remember?). It was super cool to think about how I was watching conference the same time as everyone else…except it was midnight for me. It was super cool! The change in missionary age announcement was crazy! I was definitely very excited, Darci recorded the happy dance I did because I was so excited. There were a lot of different emotions I felt thinking about that announcement. I’ve thought long and hard about some things this past week. Maybe I’ll post them on here someday. Maybe not. I don’t know.

Some crazy stories from this past week:

I got bit. Hard. By my little student Tim. I’m not sure if I’ve mentioned him before.  But he often hits us teachers as well as us students. We were starting classes so I was taking a toy away from him and he sure didn’t like that. So he grabbed my hand and started biting. I didn’t really know what to do, I didn’t expect him to bite me for that long or that hard. But after he finally let go, I realized it actually hurt. I showed our head teacher and she showed the Chinese teachers. I probably would have been fine but the Chinese teachers looked at it and took me down to the nurse. She cleaned it, had me ice it and then put something on it. Then I went back to teaching. Luckily our head teacher had been there so she could cover for my class real quick. They made him apologize to me. Then life goes on. The mark lasted for a couple days though. You can still see where his front two teeth bit down though. Even though he is a violent child, I still love him.

That was pretty much the only crazy story, unless you count the fact that everyday I’m living in China as a crazy story.

Peace!