Always an Adventure...

I wasn't sure this picture would turn out, since it was getting dark, but there was a beautiful full moon on the night of Zhuo Feng's graduation. I really like the blue tint I ended up with.

My kids at Yuli Elementary (Grades 1-3). Aren't they adorable?

When I saw this picture I said "Wow, it looks like I'm an old grandma surrounded by all my grandchildren" LOL

A spider that showed up on our balcony last week. It's dead here. I'm not sure if its carcass somehow fell onto the floor or if this is after Hope sprayed raid on it.

Today we were invited to go to Dukarel (possibly Tokar) church. The service was in Amis and Chinese. It was very interesting to listen to the Amis language. It sounds very different from Chinese. I was suprised at how much of the Chinese I understood, though not enough to totally understand the sermon yet. Close to the end of the service they had us come to the front and said thank you (I taught there all semester). Two of my students gave us Amis hats. We sang "I've got the joy" and then Hope and I sang "All in All" in English and Chinese. Afterward we went for lunch with my co-teacher, Lucia, her husband, and their three-year-old daughter, who is so cute! Lucia is going to have her second child in September, how exciting! Speaking of children, our dog, Xiao Guai had 6 puppies today! Here's the picture for today: My Dukarel students on the last night of class.

Since I'm not doing much these days, AND I just got a bunch of photos from the past few weeks (on a friend's camera), I want to post a new photo every day instead of putting them all up at once. This is from the dragon boat races in Taitung. Remember, you can click on the photo to see the full size.

Well, this week has been nice and slow so far, just plugging away at camp stuff. Yesterday we mass-produced emotion cards to use in our classes. Most of them we just used previously drawn cards, since we have taught this topic in the semester. But we added two new emotions that presented quite a challenge to us, especially since neither of us is that talented when it comes to art... anyways, take out a pen and some paper, and draw a cartoon face to depict "grumpy" and "nervous" or "embarrassed" for that matter! Anyways, they're done now, save for the laminating. Yesterday afternoon we got to go see my 6th grade students graduate from Zhuo Feng. It was pretty fun, and the speeches weren't too long or unbearable. When we first got there, we got to look at some picture books that the students made of their time at Zhuo Feng, and one of the books had their grade 1 class picture. It was SO adorable! I enjoyed trying to figure out who was who. S...