Nimen hao! (Hi all or Howdy ya’ll depend which country you’re from)
We just finished up Chinese class today and we got our textbooks. Very exciting to learn that in Chinese the pronouns are very simple and they only have one verb tense. I also learned the word ma has 4 meanings depending on how you say it. Mother, hemp,…

Whew, the past 36 hours have been quite a roller-coaster. Well, the whole trip has, but these last two days have been particularly challenging. Saturday we played football with the teachers and their students. It was quite fun, especially as the Chinese students began understanding how to play. The girls threw frisbees. It’s hard to believe that most people have…

Today concludes the first full day at Shenyang Technical Institute. During our day and a half here we have watched an English contest, had a Chinese class, ate 3 meals at the same restaurant, gone back into town to shop for essentials like a basketball and ping pong paddles, and introduced a few Chinese to frisbee. Oh, and we’ve spent…

It’s a quarter before 7 Am, and the sun has been up for nearly 3 hours. I would have no way of knowing that unless Landon, an ESL teacher, told us so because the pollution is so thick. Our whole team was very tired yesterday after arriving in the city at 10AM. We met our missionary and his family; he’s…