Finally some answers

On Sunday, we were going to skype into the branch in Beijing, but the connection wouldn't work for some reason, so we had our own sacrament meeting. We just had some people share some thoughts and favorite scriptures, I
really enjoyed it, I felt the spirit strongly. It's always an interesting experience having church when its not in a normal setting.

I'm not really sure whats going on with the itching, but last night I broke out in hives pretty bad..luckily Matt had some cream stuff to put on it that made it better.

I finally got my schedule for teaching!! I will teach the little kindergartners! I'm in charge of arts and crafts for 2 weeks. I start Wednesday and I'll teach from 7:50 to 9:50! I'll switch off from that time and 9:50 to 11:50. I'm pretty excited cause I'll get to name them, and I get to stay at this school. A lot of the other teachers have to go to other schools. which is like a 40 min drive..so I'm pretty excited!

We went to the beach today and it was a lot of fun! The water was kind of cold but not to bad! The beach was pretty nice, everyone stared at us, like always, and they video taped us playing down by the banks. The whole group went, and we got to meet Kelly's fiance! she getting married in October? So we'll be here for the wedding! i hope were invited..it would be sweet to go to a Chinese wedding!

After the beach we all went to this really nice restaurant and it was really cool, cause they just had a hot plate in the middle of the table and they brought out a bowl of broth with lots of herbs and spices, and then they brought out plates of raw meet noodles and veggies and tofu and lots of other things, and we would put them inside this dish and it would cook it all super fast! It was the first time that I've actually been full here. The food was soo good:)

Tomorrow we are finally going to go to the night market! I'm really excited. I budgeted my money to try to make it so that I won't take out any more money...we will see how it goes! Ii can spend 400 yuan a week. which is a lot here so i think it will even out when Ii go on trips and such! Dad would be so proud that I'm managing my money wisely!

We also found out when our vacations are!The first 3 day weekend is September 17th, and then we have a week long break October 1st, and then another 3 day break in November sometime! Everyone has started planning what they want do. I just want to buy some cute cheap jeans!! I'm so good at bartering now,everyone makes me buy things for them.I got Sarah a swimsuit for 25 yuan cheaper! boo yah! haha I'm lovin this here. I want to come back with peter sometime.