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Entries from August 2007

Thursday, August 30th, 2007

NEW SITE!

Over the last few days I decided to completely change up our site. I started messing with a new program and figured I’d do something with it. The address to our blog and homepage are the same, but some of the others have changed. The software I used before to upload the site doesn’t work [...]

Tuesday, August 28th, 2007

Love Song for a Savior

I was flipping through my guitar song book today looking for a song to play. I flipped to “Love Song for a Savior” by Jars of Clay. It’s a song that I’ve heard numerous times and I even sang it with my a cappella group in college. I’ve played it before too, but for some [...]

Friday, August 24th, 2007

English camp pictures up!

After trying to figure out how to get around the “Great Firewall of China” we finally we’re able to get some new pics up in our gallery. We’ll work on getting some more up of our apartment and the area in the next few days. Enjoy.

Thursday, August 23rd, 2007

A little fun before school starts.

We finally have internet in our apartment (China isn’t big on Macs, so it was a challenge getting it set up), so hopefully these entries will be a bit more consistent from now on.
About a week ago we were able to spend a couple days with Bright, one of our students from the English camp. [...]

Sunday, August 12th, 2007

The Long Anticipated Update

We have now been in China for more than three weeks! Our first two weeks at the English camp, though originally not connected to our time studying here, proved to be connected in many ways. We have been witnesses of the mystery of how our Father leads. The school where we taught ended up being [...]

Sunday, August 12th, 2007

“That’s China”

“That’s China.”
Whenever there is something bizarre, odd, peculiar, illogical, or simply downright unbelievable, we no longer react in shock or surpise, but simply say, “That’s China.”
The following are some of these things.
At this city where it rains frequently, very very frequently, there is marble EVERYWHERE. Every store, the sidewalks, the [...]

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