The weather is going to go from near 70 today to below 50 tomorrow!!
Its rather funny, because in Michigan the weather has
taken a nose dive as well, with snow
covering the ground!
We had a few days of 70+ weather though, so I am thankful for it and will NOT
be complaining tomorrow!
It was rainy today, but it was a warm rain!
Sunday I saw a friend I hadn't seen all week. I mentioned how that past Tuesday was the
first one all semester that we had not had lunch together,
She said "We may have to see to fixing that, then won't we?"
So before my lunch break today, I checked my phone
but when I didn't see any messages I went out to get food on my own.
When I returned to the office to grab some of my stuff and head to my room
who should be sitting there with my boss, but my friend from Sunday!
She is very good friends with my boss so I figured they were there to visit.
Yet my boss turned to me and said
"She's here for you, not me!"
Turns out, the wifi in the office is so junk these days,
my wechat had been unable to receive the message she
had sent asking if we were meeting for lunch.
Though we were only a few minutes past 12, we ended up
sitting in the office most of the hour talking, the three of us.
We did go out the last 25-20 minutes though
and she got her lunch to eat after I left, and
got me a tea!
I love having friends here!
I have such a wonderful support system!
One of the of the students was very sick today and went to the clinic.
My roommate is good friends with her and went with her.
My roommate is good friends with her and went with her.
Seems it was a pretty interesting experience for them both!
As I am sure you can imagine!
She was diagnosed as having a stomach infection, and
was given a bag full of medications.
However, pain meds are seldom given out here!
So hours later when she was still having stomach pain
they were asking me why she hadn't gotten better
as soon as she took the medication.
I tried to explain that taking meds doesn't actually
mean you will BE better right away, but they
insisted that it should.
I tried to go through the meds that she had been given so that I could figure out
what they were for, but there was one I couldn't understand.
I went down to ask Jean if she could explain one of the
medicines to me.
Both she and one of our office teachers said
"She expects to be better after taking one dose?!"
Ah...culture differences!
Anyway,
while I was down there talking with Jean,
little one was bopping around and ended up asking
when we were going to colour like we had planned.
She asked her Mom first when we could and her Mom said to ask me,
So she turned to me and said
"Jiejie, when do you have time to colour with me?"
{Be still my heart!!}
I told her that we could colour whenever she had time...and she said
I have time now!
And so......
It was so much fun!
She is such a cute kid!
Anyone that was here during the 2013
BMH camp will remember her as the little poppet that
would come in during our night time assemblies, and I think
she was around a bit this year too.
She is the spitting image of her Mother!
We coloured this one together, and
she happily chatted the entire time....
as did I!
She had no problems with my Chinese
and even often whispered so that it
was just us that could be in on
the plans and such, as her parents were both sitting near by,
She did not want to be done for the day,
but it was getting late and her mom said that
one page was enough.
We will for sure be doing that again soon though!
I said we should write our names on the top
so her Mom wrote hers on the top right corner
and I wrote mine on the left.
{It looks like a child wrote mine but that is cause I did about
{It looks like a child wrote mine but that is cause I did about
half of it upside down!!}
Once both of our names were there, Jean asked her
if she knew what my name was,
She pointed to the characters and slowly said {As if she was reading it.}
"Jie Jie"
LOVE IT!!
And Jean asked if I was going to be here for camp again this summer,
so we made a lasting impression on them,guys! {I have not brought
up camp with her at all!}
#ItsTheLittleThings
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