And the winner is “the Parker tree”! Would he please come up to the front for his prize? One of our Chinese friends awkwardly wrapped in tinsel, lights, and ornaments sauntered his way up to the front of the room. His prize included standing with the door prizes at his feet for the lucky winners. [...]
Merry Christmas everybody! The past month has been full of Christmas parties and gift exchanges, but one party in particular touched my heart so much I just have to share it with you. Last night we invited some of our closest girl friends over to watch The Nativity. It was such an awesome, intimate setting [...]
Being the Christmas season and all, I’ve been talking to so many of my friends about the holiday and what it means to them. I’m often sad to learn that so many people here see it as just a Western holiday. They’ve only recently started to recognize and adapt it into their culture, but it’s [...]
The welcoming smile on my face told otherwise…but I was honestly scared. As the noise inside our apartment grew louder and the number of people increased, my heart began to beat faster with each ring of the doorbell. Each time it rang I opened the door, expecting to find our apartment complex security guard, or [...]
This past weekend we had our Christmas party for our friends. Our five member team invited everybody we knew to one of our apartments for the celebration. Due to exams and study, many of our friends couldn’t make it. That left us with only seventy people that showed up. That’s right, SEVENTY, not seventeen, or [...]
I usually find myself more stressed out or annoyed by the smaller things in life, since many times i feel as though i should be able to fix them myself, and if something seems too big for me i know i have to leave it in Dad’s hands and so i don’t worry about it [...]
Who: zhao What: is going to read the bible and discuss it with me When: weekly Where: wherever we can meet Why: that he might believe what Dad says How: we will both read and discuss what we have read each week He might have been trying to be funny. He might have been blatantly [...]
She was the only stranger at our first Christmas party. Quiet but observant, Hedy listened as we told snippets of the Story while we made crafts and explained our Christmas songs. However, she and all the other girls had to leave early so we didn’t have time to watch the special movie and have a [...]
I’m sitting in my living room right now cozyed up to the fire and in front of our gorgeous tree in a room that is full of handmade snowflakes. Granted the fire place is made out of construction paper…but for some odd reason it makes the room so much warmer! I can hardly believe that [...]
Last weekend found me standing on my living room TV stand, talking to over 30 Chinese girls crammed into my very small apartment! Sonata and I were doing a rather last-minute Christmas party. We had been planning on doing a party, but with all the busyness of the week before, we had forgotten to invite [...]