City

Had a chance today to see some of the city. Even made some new friends!

Tomorrow we will worship in Chinese in the morning, before we finish our training!!

Firsts....

We went this afternoon to see the classrooms in the school. First: no AC in school! You open windows and turn on some fans. (And of course squatty potties only and you must bring your own TP. )

Different types of food.  First: passion fruit and lychee fruit. Even eating from places on the street where we completely didn't know what it is. 

Proud of my kids for trying everything!

It is really hot and humid! We are drinking lots of water and thankful for any AC we get. 

Preparations

Finished another day of training and preparations. 

Pretty cool to see how everyone uses their God given gifts and seems we compliment each other well.

Scott has jumped right in and playing guitar to all the songs we will sing. Timon stepped up to singing and leading the songs. Chloe and I are dancers! (Yes, very animated during worship here. So we are learning all the song motions. )

Ruth will get to participate in the camp, so during some of our training sessions, she has helped pack up the crafts and game supplies. 

Learned today that we four will teach in 4 different classrooms.  Meaning... we will all be responsible for one of the English lessons each day. I ask that you remember us. We have only finished our lesson plans for Monday so far. C and T seem nervous to be responsible for teaching their classes. 

We shared all the gifts, goodies and financial blessing with our friends tonight. They were so thankful and excited!

This has been crazy hectic day! Trained all day, had local food, and thankful for sleep now. I can hardly type the sentences.

Eveyone is doing great!

Made it!

We have arrived in Taiwan. Wonderful aiport pickup by Chris and his friend. 

We are settling in for bed. All luggage arrived too!

Even got slippers!

Upgrades!

Thanks for lifting our request! We should be rested and ready to train and learn when we arrive!

Taking off

Excited to be on our way!

Here we are with luggage for 5 for 10 days! Pretty impressive to carry it all on the plane. 

Looking ahead for restful and comfortable flights. 

He is already at work!

I am beyond excited to share we have all 5 been upgraded on our longest flight segment to Tokyo! We will just deal with the back row and scattered seats on the way home. (Or you can being lifting now that we can get seats rearranged so we can get atleast 2 seats together. I don't want Ruth even a row apart!.)

Thank you!!!!

Next adventure for our family..... Taiwan!

24 hour countdown is starting now! We have been training, preparing, and packing for our family to travel together to serve in Taiwan alongside another family sent from CBC. (I must be careful with names and descriptions. ;))

We are still awaiting the upgrade notification from American Airlines!! Will you lift that with us?

Additional lifting items:

1. No flight or luggage delays.

2. We tolerate the extreme heat and humidity well.

3. We serve joyfully.

4. We are alert upon arrival and quickly learn our lesson plans for teaching at the camps.

We will try to update you often!