~Holiday Cheer~

I feel like I just blogged but so many things have happened! Adam and I finished up our classes with plays. They were a lot of fun and our students did great. Adam made me, Vera, and May a shrimp dinner for Christmas Eve and it was amazing! I didn't have to help because he had to rip the heads off, take the shells off and rip the vein out of each one and he knew I pry wouldn't have been able to taste the goodness if I helped. We had a Christmas party with one of my classes on Christmas Eve and had so much fun. Our students had a New Years party with their classes and we got to be the only teachers that were invited. Adam and I felt very cool! We are around their ages so I am more like their sister and friend to them, actually some of them thought we were only 18 or 20!haha A Japanese class we have never met wanted us to come sing for them and it was funny. Adam has a good voice, me on the other hand can not sing! We both had colds and it was a sad version of Rudolph the Red nose reindeer! We had to stay for another 5 minutes while they all got out their phones and snapped photos. We went to Qingdao for our last Sunday with the Branch. It was very sad but we had a great afternoon visiting with all the BYU teachers. We are so happy that we will be with a few of them in Hainan, see them all in Hong Kong and end our trip with Victoria and Nona. I am so thankful for their love and support. China would not have been as wonderful without being able to attend church Sundays and to have their friendship. They have been our family away from family! We are now sadly cleaning and packing our apartment before we head off to travel around. I am happy that our Thailand trip is back on because it is HOT there!! Adam and I have loved being in China. We have been so lucky to enjoy being able to spend every waking moment together! We will miss it but I know that we will end up back here someday!