-Grace: "Isn't north what's in front of you?"
Chris: enjoying a good laugh
-Grace: "Did you write down the street names?"
Chris: "No, it's all in my head. I read Chinese better in my imagination than on paper."
Grace: "?!?!?"
-The city's too big, it has too many streets
-Can't tell the cab driver for the life of us more than our three Chinese phrases. It's amazing we make it home at all.
-We forget to do our Chinese homework, and so never learn more than 3 phrases.
- Chris thinks the maps are lying to him. I've heard this speech more than once.
But somehow, in the end, we make it home in one piece, mostly thanks to our Chinese floormate, Petra. So here's to being in one piece in Beijing with more funny stories by the day. Like the one where we walked west instead of north (that's wasn't my fault either, even though I'm slightly directionally challenged. Beijing makes everybody directionally challenged). We've managed to find ourselves a small group and it feels so good to be in community again. And, Chris is over his 3 week sickness and we're hoping he'll stay healthy another little bit. Maybe that will make living here easier next year. We've also joined an Alpha course as facilitators and brought 2 Chinese friends to it, and it was so cool to hear their questions and be able to answer them. God was present. Please keep August and Helen in your prayers.
Love from cold but sunny Beijing.
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