My First Post
Hello All!! I am writing this first post just to have an update on the blog. I am still in Nashville right now and am getting ready to move and travel abroad. It is a bit overwhelming and I can’t…
Category Stories
Progress (sorta)
Monday 2 August Today was a thousand times better than yesterday. Not that yesterday was terrible but there were definitely some bad parts. Today I was with Ms. Halana whose subject is literacy. Today her lesson was on adjectives and…
Abandoned
They left me at the school. Just completely forgot about me. It was alright though. I didn’t even notice to be honest. I did notice that the door was locked but I just figured that they locked it because they…
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…
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…