One thing I've learned about china

If there's one thing I've learned about china, it's that nothing is planned! sometimes it feels like while people are in the middle of doing something they have this idea so they say hey lets do it! and they do it. things change all the time, nothing is reliable! for instance, our vacation days! haha they have changed yet again. instead of leaving Wednesday through sun, we get mon and Tuesday off too! exciting right?? kinda. we already bough our train tickets and can't exchange them so we are still leaving Tuesday night for Beijing. but good news, we don't teach all week! haha but the bad news was we had to teach today (Saturday). it's exciting cause i have next week off, then i teach for a week, and then i have off another 10 days! when i come back from that vacation i will have hit the half way mark...crazy huh?!

Another example of this, yesterday while teaching it got pretty hectic! only half the kids showed up! so we were all excited cause 2 teachers taught 1 class and they each had like 6 kids in them. it was going great till all of a sudden, 40 min into teaching, the other kids came running in! we had no idea where they were or what they had been doing. all we knew was that we had to teach them. so, we pulled kids into rooms, split up the teachers and tried to teach, but failed miserably. They were all wound up and could not keep still or keep there mouths closed! ugghh. it was a very long day. i ended up not teaching at all. we kinda just played games with them which was a lot better than trying to teach.

Kelly came into our room and was like hey, want to go to the beach??so we got ready and were excited and we asked who else was going and said no one. haha she had only invited us (cause were her favorite!) i felt to special! her fiance came with us and we even drove in her brand new car! it was fun, we just played around in the water for awhile. the beach here is weird! like it never gets deeper? i feel like i can walk forever and my feet never leave the sand. well afterwords we all went to dinner and then we had to go back the the school for a meeting. But the funny thing was, was that i don't think Kelly was allowed to take us places like that? when we were walking she asked us to put our towels in our bag and she was wearing a dress and heels. haha she was trying to pretend like we weren't doing anything! The principal even walked by and we had to wait in the parking lot. hahaha it was pretty funny..i felt bad tho cause i definitely don't want to get her in trouble, but we had no idea!

So our branch president came from Beijing to visit us this weekend! His wife and son came, and they took us to dinner Saturday night! it was really sweet of them. after dinner we had an adult session of conference, to get us ready for Sunday. which today, we had out stake conference


















Here is my new dress I bought!