Spring

A new season. It's a season known for bringing new life. It's a season that brings beautiful scenery and flowers. It's a season that revives the dead of winter, and reminds us just how perfect and incredible this creation is.

Spring for me has meant busy. I have come back to life. I have been working non-stop, and trying to fit in some social life time too. I have been teaching, and also doing my job at the website. www.nihaoareyou.com is a new social networking site in China. It is social networking on steroids basically. It's facebook, myspace, youtube, and msn all combined. It has games, news, tv shows, music, shopping, and so much more. It is a site to bring Chinese and Americans together. It gives people a way to connect and learn about cultures.. teach about culture and language. I am really excited about it. This is my new job, and I love love love it. I officially start full time in July. I will be moving back to Hangzhou, and living there working. I am excited to be working a job that has to do with my area of expertise. I am excited to be working with an amazing group of Texans, and Chinese. I am excited to not be under contract anymore. I am excited for the outreach this website is going to provide.

Spring has also meant more time with friends and students. They have more free time, and I have more desire to leave the house now that it's warming up. I have been busy every night with students. I have had them coming over to cook me amazing food, me cook them amazing food, go out to eat good food, and going shopping. It's been really fun to get to see them outside of class. I love having had the same students all year. I only have 4 weeks left with them, and I started to tear up a little in class today. It's going to be weird to not be in front of a class anymore.

DAD has truly blessed the work here, and relationships. So much has happened recently. I'm just so excited about it all. Please remember us as we're finishing up this term. Leaving the work in Ningbo is going to be hard for all of us. I am so blessed to get to stay so close.. visits will be easy. Also.. please think about me as I am apartment hunting in a country with no language skills... and changing jobs. I have hired a personal assistant to help me with those jobs, and with planning my parent's trip over. I am so excited to see them in a month!