Chapter 14: Time is Flying

Thanksgiving is over, and Christmas is coming... fast. I'm convinced that this saying is true: "As you get older, time goes faster." Better than slower I guess...
I spent about five days in Kunming for Thanksgiving. It was really fun! 
 

Lexi was really sweet and make me a welcome home sign. :)
For Thanksgiving dinner we celebrated on Friday, and we had some of our Chinese friends over. They liked all of the food, except for the pumpkin pie. Apparently, to the Chinese, pumpkin pie tastes like traditional medicine. So some of those that have tried it have grimaced at its taste. It's pretty hilarious...
But for those of us who actually like pumpkin pie (my family), we loved it because Xiao Zhang (our house helper) made it from fresh pumpkin... mmm...

For dinner we also had stuffing - sosososo good because it was made from scratch by Mama - two chickens, green bean casserole (made by myself!), jello salad made by Lexi (using 8 fingers instead of 10... observe the picture of her cutting the pineapple), cranberry sauce, and some peas and corn. It was definitely a sweet taste of home.

Xiao Zhang and the kids! Er, young adults I should say...

Lexi's fingers, sprained because a car door opened
while she was biking and hit her hand :(

Deliciousness :)

Thanksgiving in Kunming was a good time of relaxation and enjoying family. But now I'm back in Wen Shan, and I'll be staying here for a longer stretch before returning to Kunming at Christmas time. But it's going to go by really fast!
It was really good to be with the kids at the PT center today. I missed them! And I'm really happy that I'll be able to focus on them more now that my college apps are finished!!! I applied to Azusa Pacific, UC Irvine, UC San Diego, Sonoma State, and a junior college called Alan Hancock. Now I just have to wait and see what happens. Honestly, I have no idea where I want to go... probably my top
two choices are Azusa Pacific and one of the UCs. But I would also be very happy to start at Hancock and then transfer after two years. But I'm still asking Daddy what he wants me too... I've got time to decide, so I'm not stressing too much.

But anyways, I feel like I'm rambling in an unorderly fashion. But I guess to sum it up I'm doing pretty well. Daddy is good and faithful, and I'm excited for these next few weeks. I think my schedule will finally become steady, and I'm going to get plugged into working with the kids and learning Chinese - the two most important things of why I'm here in Wen Shan. So, keep me in your thoughts. It's going to be a challenging stretch I think, but I'm looking forward to the changes as well as blessings that will come from it.
I'll do my best to get pictures of me and the kids at the center up on the blog. So stay tuned! Thanks for following me!

PS Thanks Meredith and Michelle for your comments on my last post. I still have had no success with making the velcro stick on the plastic posters (except on two posters...for some reason), so I'm going to try to make plastic pockets. But we'll see how it works. I'll keep everybody updated! If anybody else has any ideas in case the pockets don't work, gimme more ideas! Thanks!!! :)

Blessings, Na Na