Dear everyone!
1 week of this summer camp is over! And I have a weekend break, while 2 of the other schools, Jane and Cat's have saturday school. haha. Anyway, this last week has been quite adventurous and very tiring. But everytime I look at the students and how they work hard and are so happy, I'm reenergized.
The students here are a little crazy sometimes, but it's not as much of a problem for me as an english teacher since they really like me and my class. But this week, I had to rotate between every single class every day. It was difficult, but necessary since all the students wanted the "american teacher," when Grace and David come tomorrow it'll be so much easier!
But as for things that I've experienced this week: I went Jia Fang and saw students houses, I went to "gan ji" the street market that happens once a week, yesterday I sat ontop of someone's ox (cause my student said it was fun), my students carried me off to go pick some peaches (one of the juciest I've ever tasted, it was funny cause I had to do something importatnt, but they picked me up and brought me to the peach trees), I went looking for some freshwater eels that live in the rice patties (or some sort of patties), I found out my kid roommate (one of the TGS workers nephews) pees in our room in the corner, and most importantly that God has placed on my heart these two students Carol and Maria. Carol is only a 7th grader but she places so much emphasis on her studies, lives on 1 yuan (15 cents) a day, she lives by herself, cooks for herself, manages herself so well, it breaks my heart but I really feel that God is calling me to reach out to her. I've walked her home (with some other CCVs) two nights in a row and got to talk to her just about random stuff.
Anyway, pray for their hearts, and also pray for strength for me. I'm relieved that Grace and David are coming tomorrow night!
Halfway done! But keep praying, I'm trying to make the most of the time here, but I feel so tired a lot of the time.
Love from China,
YY
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