Sunshine

We finally have sunshine. It has been raining for a week straight. I feel like I am in the rain forest. Today it finally stopped raining and the sun came through. When you finally see the sun after a week, it makes you so thankful. When you seen the sun, that means you get to do laundry! If you try to do laundry without sun, it takes forever to dry. I will never complain of doing laundry in America; it is so much more work here.
This has been a busy busy week. We had people over to our house every night this week! That's really a great thing though even though it makes you tired. Both of my studies were really great this week. My students are really thinking about things and it is really exciting. Craig has also met a few people recently that he is going to have English readings with. We asked him and he gave us people. It's amazing!
On Saturday, I went with my Chinese tutor to an English training school. It was not quite the experience I expected. We left Enshi at 6:30 and we did not return until 10:00. I am still exhausted today. I taught three lessons and helped her the rest of the time. The people in the town had never seen a foreigner so that is always tiring. Sometimes it makes you feel like a sideshow act in a circus. One little girl who was about 4 years old stared at me for 5 minutes, I think I terrified her. All of the students were really excited to have a foreigner at their school. It really made me miss my students in Russellville and really made me miss teaching elementary school. I cannot wait to have my own classroom. I hope so much to get a teaching job in Russellville. We have been asking Dad about our future plans and we have peace he will show us the way.
My Chinese is getting a little better. I need to study more. Some of the sounds I don't know that I will ever be able to pronounce, but hopefully I won't have to say those words often. I think I would get laughed at. It is so challenging!
This week I am going to try to post pictures of some our friends we have made here. We have done a bad job about doing that. We will try to do better.
Hope your all doing well. Please keep us in your thoughts. We miss you all! We would love to hear from you!