Randomness

Yes, it's been a long time since I've posted I know. So here come my excuses...

Tuesday I went into Dajia (for the first time by myself might I add) to mail a letter and then stopped at a stand and got some milk tea to celebrate my great achievement.

Seriously though, the roads in Dajia are all twisty and crooked. It is easy to lose you bearings if you don't keep your eyes wide open.

Anyway, I also got two cream puff type things because I remembered that Gem had been wanting to try them. Yes, two... I got one for myself as well as her. :)

Here is someone making them at a food stand. The purplish ones are sweet red bean. 

I got vanilla tapioca... I think.

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Anyway, that night I kept waking up with a horrible stomach ache. 

To make a long story short I ended up laying around my room in the apartment for TWO days straight.

I think I can sympathize a little better with those who have been through solitary confinement. (not that I know anyone who has) But seriously, that's what it felt like! 

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I'll just skip over those two days......

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Friday, I was feeling good enough to go back to teaching.

(Well, technically I had to be or they would bring me to the doctor)

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I was sooo thankful that God answered my prayers and I was feeling almost all the way better by Friday afternoon and was great the whole weekend, because I had to go to the annual English teacher's Retreat at one of the other teams locations about a 2 1/2 hour trip away. All 43 of us!

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Here are a few pictures I took.

                                      

Saturday afternoon water balloon fight.

I participated in it for about 10 minutes, but I didn't pack extra clothes so I came up with a genius plan to take pictures so I could stick around to watch without getting drenched like the rest of them.

You can tell that Tim wants to throw that water balloon sooo bad!

Audra laughs at a safe distance.

The school location the retreat was held at. 

So cute and small!

I went on a walk with some of the others over this super cool long bridge.

This was my bunk bed for the two nights.

Don't be fooled, that mattress isn't as thick as it looks. In fact it really and truly felt like lying on a wood board. I was sooo sore after that weekend!

Here I am heading to the trainstation Sunday afternoon to head back to Dajia.

I was sad to say goodbye to my friends at the station as I was taking a different train.

This was the first long train ride I have taken alone and I only got my seat number wrong twice!

The problem was that I also had an old ticket with me and I mixed up the numbers. hehe

Thankfully, I can always play the "stupid foreigner" card and people are usually really nice about stuff.

Ok, so back to teaching....

I was a bit disturbed when I came across this vocab card while lesson planning.

Is this how how my students really see me?

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I got a name card for my desk at school!

Some of my students at my Wednesday school performing there play for me.

I love this story!

Ok, that was a lot of random disconnected stuff.

I had some videos I wanted to put up, but they wouldn't load. I'll have to mess around with that later to see if I can figure it out better.