Last Day in Kunming
It is Friday evening and I have said my goodbyes to the Elderly Home, Autistic School and Keats School. I have mixed emotions of sadness and happiness. I am especially happy that I was able to volunteer at two places and…
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Weekend Edition
Saturday July 30th Last night we had our farewell dinner for the volunteers that are leaving. It was at the hotel on Habour Island. I was told it was “buffet” style but that wasn’t really true. There really were only…
Test Day!
Recap of Friday July 29th Today was test day. At the end of each two week session, the students take a test on what they have been learning. The tests went really well. All my boys rocked it. Onke only…
Exhaustion
I have to apologize for my lack of blog posts. It is so hard to write every day and then post every day! There is so much going on. I will do my best to rehash last week as well…
One Week & Two Days Left in China
Last Monday (7/25) and this Wednesday (8/3) I reached more blocks in my Chinese. It just made the elderly home a little more difficult. But I am always able to help and still make them happy anyway. I found a place to develop…
Birthday and trouble at school
Sunday was my birthday! We went to Cape Town by train which took a little more than an hour. There we did some shopping and I got my dad a present. Then we ate at the food court and I…
Constantly Learning
I just spend over an hour writing on my blog but the internet completely messed up and then it erased my entire blog post 🙁 I already posted it and everything but I looked back and it was completely gone like…
Week 1
It is hard to express this week in words. I’ve written everyday so here’s my week. Pictures will come later 7/16 I could hardly sleep last night. I attempted to go to bed but the combination of a hot room…
Long Week
This Thursday was the hardest day of volunteering yet. I have had a very busy and long week going to both places to volunteer, waiting really long for extremely crowed buses, long Chinese classes, and studying after it all. So I was particularly exhausted on Thursday. My brain just would…
Elderly Home and School for Autistic Children
After conversing with my Chinese teacher about my volunteer work, I have decided to help out both at the Elderly Home and the School for Autistic Children. Every Monday, Wednesday and Friday I will go to the Elderly Home and…