While visiting at my mom's we were blessed to get together with all my brothers and meet my oldest brothers fiance. We had a great time near the New River Gorge, staying in a very large cabin/house. We cooked, cleaned, and updated her computer. Jaime was able to visit with her friends from college and a friend from the AmeriCorp. I just finished reading The Heavenly Man, very interesting. What are your thoughts?
Since the beginning of the year I have also read or finished reading Clarence Thomas' Memoir My Grandfather's Son and Saving Fish from Drowning, Searching for God Knows What, The Heavenly Man The Remarkable True Story of Chinese Christian Brother Yun, God's Secretaries The Making Of The King James Bible.
After staying at my Mom's, we visited with the Prestoncrest C of C in Dallas! This was a great experience. We met many nice people, had some great BBQ, and got support for our time in Beijing!
While at Jaime's Mom's... I did a little reading, some of those mentioned above. I also studied Chinese sometimes, watched TV, took the dog for a walk, cooked and washed the dishes, cleaned her car, and shoveled the drive.
Since returning to China, I have begun studying Chinese more frequently. I want to be able to speak to people... I really look forward to living in Beijing, studying the language full time, and sharing Him with the wonderful people there.
I was talking with our friends here about how much time I plan to spend studying the language. I said I'll take the minimum from the language school 1.5 hours a day and hire someone to practice talking with me 1 on 1 in our home, but then I started thinking about it more. I can do better than that... using Rosetta Stone, the language books I already have, the many practice books for writing characters, and Pimsluer, I could easily occupy the entire day. So, as always I'll work out some grand scheme for how to best do this and it'll be phenomenal, then I'll scale back to something realistic.
Monday, February 4, 2008
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