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Well, our crazy-but-fun weekend has come to an end. We spent Saturday evening partying at the Crowne Plaza with our middle and high school students.
Leah and Kyla
some of my high school choir
Dan spoke at fellowship on Sunday, possible for the last time. It was a little overwhelming yesterday, hearing people sing and pray in different languages, and wondering when we’ll be part of such a vibrant and diverse community again. I suppose it’s just something we’ll have to seek out.
One week down and a visitor
The odd quirk of mixing a Chinese and American calendar is two large breaks from school in close proximity to each other: we just finished our first week back to school, yet we only have three more weeks left before another two-week vacation. It makes it difficult to get some things done - the kids come back and are already thinking about not having school…
Thursday night Sarah and I, along with another teacher, Adelle, went to the airport to pick up a friend. My roommate Andy flew in from Beijing for a couple of days before heading on to other places in China, as well as Laos and Thailand. (We have two two-week breaks; the Chinese New Year gives Andy a full month off at the same time!) I gave him the tour of the school, we did the obligatory trip to the Pandas:
(There were cuter ones - but we weren’t allowed to take pictures)
In other news, our puppy Bailey got fixed on Thursday, but he has fully recovered with most of his manhood intact.