Howdy Mom and who ever reads these,
well alot has changed since i emailed you. Well i am no longer headed to Hengyang China anymore! I am now headed to Huayuan China. Its a much smaller city and is much more north in the Hunan providence. Lee and i will be the very first teachers at this school so we have to set a high bar so that when other teachers from future semestgers have something to work for. I see this as a blessing because maybe i wasnt suppose to go to the other school. Crazy how things work themselves out here in China!
Tomorrow is going to be our first church here in china! yeah i came to find out that we will have church! YEAH!!!! How you ask? Well our church will all be done by video conference or skype. We will have a opening prayer, the sacrament (which will be done by lee and i for ourselves because we will be miles apart from everyone) 3 talks, and closing hymn and can't forget the closing prayer! Should be very awesome and very very spiritual!!! i am totally stoked for it!!!! Anyone wanting to skype i should Sundays quiet a bit so please dont be afraid to skype or send a email!!! Please ask any questions you may have!!! That even includes the little ones, like trevor, jenessa, alyse, lexi, chase, trey, layton, max, addison etc etc anyone with any questions please don't be shy!!!
Tonight we met with my new "bishop" be he really is the president of our little online church! Him and his wife are very sweet and even took us out to dinner at a pretty nice place. When we walked in it went quiet!! NO JOKE!!!! I think the cooks even stopped cooking! I waved hoping for a response, nothing everyone wazs just in aw with howing white people were in their town! After dinner i went to find the bathrom and that was an adventure. Well i came to the main floor and again it went silent! I was lost and this little chinese worker showed me into the restroom. Now it was weird. The girl and boys bathroom share sinks! So when i was done with my business i washed my hands turned to see any paper towels. hahaha my luck there is nothign so there i was standing there hands soaking wet and chinese women surrounding me! Then this little girl maybe 7 or 8 grabs a pack of towels out of here pocket. I say thank you take one and give it back. she hesitates and i insist again and than she finally takes it and blushes and hold the package of towels tight and giggles. caught me off guard and started back to my table. But wait that wasnt the end of my journey, on my way back i was offered this huge bottle of wine from these business guys i say no and the insist i take it. I denied them again so the guy puts the top of the bottle in his mouth bites the cork right off. Was the coolest thing ever!!!! Then the poured me a glass and offered that to me! was awesome!!!
After dinner we started walking the streets and came across some line dancing! OF course i danced...you dont even have to ask!! after each song you know they were talking about us and making jokes but it was a riot!!!!
Got tired from all the dancing and was walking back and came across 4 girls. I said hello and they giggled! But i got a pic with the four of them. Took them a few trys to warm up to me but didnt take long. I just really need to work on my chinese!!!
Well i hope everyone loves my stories! Was an awesome day! Spent about 8 and a half hours in class studying teaching chinese klids! so i am tired so i am going to crash!
Good night all!
Love you lots!!!!
-Jordan
well alot has changed since i emailed you. Well i am no longer headed to Hengyang China anymore! I am now headed to Huayuan China. Its a much smaller city and is much more north in the Hunan providence. Lee and i will be the very first teachers at this school so we have to set a high bar so that when other teachers from future semestgers have something to work for. I see this as a blessing because maybe i wasnt suppose to go to the other school. Crazy how things work themselves out here in China!
Tomorrow is going to be our first church here in china! yeah i came to find out that we will have church! YEAH!!!! How you ask? Well our church will all be done by video conference or skype. We will have a opening prayer, the sacrament (which will be done by lee and i for ourselves because we will be miles apart from everyone) 3 talks, and closing hymn and can't forget the closing prayer! Should be very awesome and very very spiritual!!! i am totally stoked for it!!!! Anyone wanting to skype i should Sundays quiet a bit so please dont be afraid to skype or send a email!!! Please ask any questions you may have!!! That even includes the little ones, like trevor, jenessa, alyse, lexi, chase, trey, layton, max, addison etc etc anyone with any questions please don't be shy!!!
Tonight we met with my new "bishop" be he really is the president of our little online church! Him and his wife are very sweet and even took us out to dinner at a pretty nice place. When we walked in it went quiet!! NO JOKE!!!! I think the cooks even stopped cooking! I waved hoping for a response, nothing everyone wazs just in aw with howing white people were in their town! After dinner i went to find the bathrom and that was an adventure. Well i came to the main floor and again it went silent! I was lost and this little chinese worker showed me into the restroom. Now it was weird. The girl and boys bathroom share sinks! So when i was done with my business i washed my hands turned to see any paper towels. hahaha my luck there is nothign so there i was standing there hands soaking wet and chinese women surrounding me! Then this little girl maybe 7 or 8 grabs a pack of towels out of here pocket. I say thank you take one and give it back. she hesitates and i insist again and than she finally takes it and blushes and hold the package of towels tight and giggles. caught me off guard and started back to my table. But wait that wasnt the end of my journey, on my way back i was offered this huge bottle of wine from these business guys i say no and the insist i take it. I denied them again so the guy puts the top of the bottle in his mouth bites the cork right off. Was the coolest thing ever!!!! Then the poured me a glass and offered that to me! was awesome!!!
After dinner we started walking the streets and came across some line dancing! OF course i danced...you dont even have to ask!! after each song you know they were talking about us and making jokes but it was a riot!!!!
Got tired from all the dancing and was walking back and came across 4 girls. I said hello and they giggled! But i got a pic with the four of them. Took them a few trys to warm up to me but didnt take long. I just really need to work on my chinese!!!
Well i hope everyone loves my stories! Was an awesome day! Spent about 8 and a half hours in class studying teaching chinese klids! so i am tired so i am going to crash!
Good night all!
Love you lots!!!!
-Jordan
Beijing Time
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