Thursday and Friday

THURSDAY:
Today was an eventful day for me! I spent the morning in the classrooms like normal. Up until today I hadn't been placed in classroom 2 so that was exciting to get to know some more students that I had only known before just by their faces and classroom number. During our lunch break, we made a trip to the village to look for props for our costumes for the costume party that is tomorrow. Jess and I decided to be ping pong nerds, we already had matching t-shirts and headbands but we needed a few wristbands (because we sweat a lot playing pong!) and some spare ping pong balls to put in our fanny packs. It was very helpful having the students helping us because we would never of found the stuff we needed without them.
After lunch I spent my afternoon at the healing home. I got to ride with Bryan in the back of his bike-buggy, I felt pretty cool cruising the streets in that. The healing home was a very humbling experience. When I first got there, I got to hold Kia. Kia is a little girl that is just a few months old that had a serious case of the chicken pox. She has been crying since the moment I got there and once she was handed to me she stopped so I got to hold her the entire two hours I was there. Another one of the little girls, Wila really brightened up my day. Wila had a clubbed foot but you wouldn't even know from how great of a spirit she had. She is a very happy little girl that doesn't probably doesn't realize that anything is wrong. She had such a big heart for a little girl, you could tell with the way she interacted with the other kids and myself.
Overall today was just a great day for new experiences and new relationships that will stick with me for a long time.

-Amber


FRIDAY: Lesson learned: how to make a sweet costume in one hour.
Today in China it was Friday.  I was given the opportunity to go to the Healing Home, which is for orphan children who are recovering from surgery or having surgery soon.  There are eight children there now ranging from 4 months to 5 years old.  I had already been to the Healing Home Monday and made friends with Wilma who is three and has a clubbed foot.  My other friend was Joel and he is five and has Spina Bifida, so he sits and moves him self around with his arms, but neither of my friends were there because Joel was having his surgery and Wilma was getting a checkup.  I went on a walk with the other kids and then went to lunch and to three classes to work with the Chinese English speaking students.  Later that night we had a costume party, which was a success.  I went as a nerdy pro ping-pong player with Amber.  The Chinese students had some great costumes too.  The costume party had many skits and us Sterling students did an awesome dance to Sandstorm.


Saturday - KC

Sunday - Kaleb