Yunyang Medical College has a new president, head of foreign affairs, and a few other new officers... plus a very large freshman class. This means there will be a rearranging of many schedules, ideas, and probably even more positions will be juggled in the coming months. Many of the Chinese teachers have almost double their normal class loads. And the American teachers have picked up a few more classes as well. This means we have more opportunity to Share!
We are learning Chinese once a week with Violet, a Chinese English teacher. And I have many students willing to tutor me, I just need to arrange the schedules... hopefully my speaking, reading, and writing of Mandarin will improve dramatically and soon!
Language is like exercise, daily practice is best. Hitting it in spurts often causes frustration because I think I know something, but have never really mastered it, so there is even more need for review and repetition. Oh, and Jaime has begun studying more too! So we are both learning Chinese and talking about moving to Beijing next year to really study the language and work full time for Him!
Our Shiyan group has more teachers this year, but no teens... we have 12 teachers, and Brad's wife Min, she is Chinese - so this would bring us to 13. (Hopefully we can get one big group photo sometime soon!)
Jaime and I have begun having more open meetings, reflecting the CPM model. So we welcome new people and are really trying to get out into the community more. We may even move the meetings into a local restaurant. We are trying to encourage a more healthy, native, and maturing local population for our Meetings. Please keep this in your Thoughts.
My knee is improving little by little, but the recovery time is 6 months, so it is also slow going just like language learning. (It has been 6 weeks since the surgery.)
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