Blabbering

In China I sometimes feel like I'm just blabbering.. not making any sense to anyone. I don't feel like I can speak English well.. or Chinese. I'm just making up my own language as I go. It's more a mix of Spanish, Swahili, Chinese, and English.. less English than anything.

I find myself teaching class in what we call Chinglish.. a mix of Chinese and English. Common phrases are.. "Anything is OK." "Maybe... we can do it." We always start a sentence with maybe.. Chinese are very indirect people. No one wants to commit to anything or say how they really feel. I find myself following these rules as well.

One of my students today called me multicultural. I am not fully American.. I have many cultural influences and live my life that way. I take this as a compliment because it's means that I have gotten to experience our Father's World. I don't belong in just one corner of it. I can adjust to many cultures and many places.

Lately I have been busy just being. I have been doing mid-terms this week. They are going well. I can see a change in my student's English. Next week I am going to show them remember the titans. This is a great film to show them American culture and also racism. They really like this movie a lot in China. I like showing it to them. I will have no day classes which is nice. I will have lots of time to read and study.

I am trying to get past the last stages of my cold.. I'm exhausted a lot. I am sleeping a whole lot and trying to get my energy back up. Today I played Tennis and it was good. Now I will nap for a little bit before tonight activities. Tonight we will go to a Chinese Opera. I am really excited. I love going to Culture things like this. Our school is really good about getting us tickets to things like this. It's such a great learning experience.

All of our studies are going really welll too.. Friday is full and Saturday is about half full and Sunday is extremely busy. The foreigner retreat is coming along really well. I am really excited about this. I hope that it is successful and something we start to do bi-annually. We'll see.

Thank you for all of your thoughts and support. I don't say Thank you enough for supporting me in this amazing adventure. Thank you.