Hello hello, just a quick report on our weekend for your reading pleasure. On Sat we played tennis with our good friends Shane and Bonnie (they have a court at their building- lucky!), and then went out with them to their friends' place in the evening. Like I've mentioned before, the expat community here is SO friendly... these people welcomed us into their home even though they'd never met us before and didn't know we were coming along. Andrew was in heaven as there were loads of guitars there and a big jam session going on. I had a great time chatting with a bunch of new girls... it's SO interesting to hear what people are doing here in Shanghai. I met one girl who is starting a company that manufactures environmentally-friendly cleaning tools- like bamboo dish scrubbies, etc. Another girl is starting her own yoga-wear line from the ground-up, and another couple of girls were volunteering tons with an organization that provides surgeries to orphan babies. SO cool to hear everyone's stories.
On Sunday morning I took a group of Canadian exchange students to the massage/manicure place across the street from our house to get beautified. These kids were grade 10/11s from Vancouver and were so much fun. The funny part was this: I was just having a quicky manicure done, but they were all in there for numerous treatments, so I was done first. I didn't want to just sit there watching them, so I took off for half an hour to grab groceries. I came back afterwards to check on them and found a bunch of them sitting there, getting their toenails painted and sipping BEER that they bought in the manicure shop. Can you believe it?? I was supposed to be quasi-responsible for them, and here they are DRINKING on my watch? Ahhh! But what can you do? It's not like they were hammered or anything. Right away they were like "shhh, don't tell our teachers".... and I won't! What a bunch of monkeys!
Last night we had the celebration/kick-off dinner for the Alpha course we're gonna be helping out with from our church. For those of you who don't know, Alpha is a 10-week course that goes over the basics of Christianity. People are welcome to join if they have questions, doubts, or curiousities. It's once a week, 3 hour sessions (including a free meal), for 10 weeks and Andrew and I will be leaders for one of the Sat afternoon groups. It's a big committment, but we really believe in this and want to help people either come to faith or strengthen their faith. There is a huge hunger for this here in China, although local Chinese people are not allowed to join Alpha, so it's for foreign passport-holders only. The reason you see so many Chinese-look-alikes in the above pic is that they come from Singapore, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Malaysia, the Philippines, etc.
Also, in 2 days from now it's Andrew's and my 2-year anniversary (on St. Patrick's Day). Crazy that it's been 2 years! In a way it seems like it's so much shorter, but on the other hand it's not hard to believe it's been two years as we've packed SO much stuff into that time. We are still SO happy together and thankful for each other, and are committed to working out the kinks that every marriage has, and are looking forward to having even MORE fun together this year. Yay!
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