There and back again...a travler's tale

Well, the Vacation to Hualien went well. We traveled on a bus the whole way.At first we were excited, but after a few hours, we could not wait to get off the bus. Stopping frequently, to get off the bus and explore was our only consolation of not getting too car sick.

Riding on the road was a little scary sometimes, because of the typhoon, most of the road had fallen off into the ocean. So during some of our trip we would be looking down into the ocean as we drove past. While most of sane people would just not talk about it, and pray for the best; Hannah and I were talking the whole time about what would happen if we fell, how we would get off the bus, sharks, and the possibility of death for everyone. Isn't that an interesting discussion?

After about a ten hour trip, we finally got to our destination. There we rested, and started another day of touring. We saw beaches, went shopping, saw awesome mountains, and got to grow closer together as a whole. But, I must say, all of us were happy to get home.

Please remember us in prayer, alot of the group is sick with a virus that seems to be going around. I have not got it yet, and I really hope I don't.

A long time later...she writes a post.

Sorry that I have not been keeping up on this blog as I should be. But, I will try to keep it up. Other then exploring death mountain, guy's hoodies, strange mountain men, neat jane austen hairdos, surprise teaching opportunities(with a 5 second thought of a lesson plan), running around Taipei with voice students, and spending time with friends; I have not been too busy:)
My school is going great. I am able to spend a lot of time with Mary, a nurse at the school, she is very interested in what I am doing, and has looked up at everything that she possibly could on the Internet. The English teacher's name is Jessie, she is very kind and trys to help me in every way she can. The principle hardly knows English, but she can say my name:) My driver can speak little, I plan to find out how much later.
We have started working with YWAM, they are doing a lot of stuff with the community. Like the English cafe, where they take in people, have coffee or tea, and do English lessons. They have a boy's home ministry, abused women and children shelter, and they do hospital visitation. I plan to try and help out in every thing I can. This would basically fill up my time in the afternoon, right after my teaching time. Another answer to prayer, of how to fill up this time.
On Saturday I plan to go to Hualien for vacation. There we will celebrate the moon festival and meet some of the other TESOL teachers. I'll fill you guy's on the detail later.

I am here!

Well, here I am finally at the English Village. We started this week on Monday, and everything seems to be going well. We have the kids for two days, and then they leave. The places we are teaching are the Airport, Library, Bank, Store, Clinic, Drama, Science, Dance, and Cooking. These past few times I have taught the library, which has been fun. The lesson time we have with each group is 40 minutes, then we go to another class. Which makes a total of 5 classes a day for each place. You can imagine that after awhile we start to get a little bored with our classes, our throats get dry, and start to hurt, and we get very tired after the day is over. Other than that, I am excited that we have finally started the EV, we know what is expected and we just have to do it. I am excited about going to the school and teaching for the day. It will be something new and refreshing. Which is something all of us need. I hope to put up some pictures of the EV later, because I am really feeling tired. Sorry it has taken me so long to do a post!