July 28th Post - A little late sorry ~ Adam

Things/Ideas I will bring back to the Unites States:
1) Squatting toilets: Here is a great timesaving tip… combine your restroom time with a workout! What better way to work out your quads while using the toilet!
2) Traffic causes many people to get angry. Solution: Cross the double yellow lines to get around it, they are more like guidelines anyway.
3) The spices that Mark made me eat at lunch that numbed my tongue. Yea that was a lot of fun… thanks Markie-Poo!

Today was our second day at camp. In the morning we had our morning assembly (“honesty” was the theme of the day) during which the kids looked at pictures from the previous day. Joey, Erik and myself were the leaders of the morning activities during which we played two games. The first involved hula-hoops where the kids got in a line, held hands and had to figure out how to get everyone through the hoop until in reached the end. The second game each team had a tablecloth; the object was to fit all of the kids on it. Once that was accomplished the tablecloth was folded in half and now they needed to still fit on the cloth but with less room. It was then folded two more times after that until it was too small for the kids to fit. Whoever got their whole class on the smallest tablecloth won… which was my team of course. I was very proud!

After activates the teachers and students were separated into classrooms. This was our first time with the students that we will be working with for the next two weeks. We spent today getting a feel on how much English our students know and learning a little bit about them. Classes went really well and it was a lot of fun getting to know the Chinese kids. Lunchtime at the camp was interesting to say the least. Many people from our team enjoy lunch I, however, have a harder time stomaching the food so I decided to stick to the cliff bar. We then returned to the hotel to rest for an hour, take a shower or hang out with the team. Then it was right back to the school to teach our second lesson. Again the class went great. Dinner went a lot better than lunch for me, which was good.

The last two hours on campus the “international team” (team members are from Canada, Hong Kong, & Philippines) did four activities that the kids really enjoyed. Because I was not leading the activities this gave me a great chance to take pictures of the kids.

Jim (our camp director) pulled away the leaders at the end of the day to share some unfortunate news. The police came today and were very suspicious and curious why we were all here (apparently the principal of the school where we are conducting the camp didn’t send in his required paper work to them in time). This means we need to be extra careful NOT be overly zealous in sharing our faith and most likely will no longer be able to attend a Chinese church this Sunday. Jim will make the final decision on this later this week. We ask for you all to pray that some how God will show us a way to minister to some of these children. Thank you for everyone who has commented on our posts, we had a chance to read them today and it’s really refreshing to hear what you have to say back. Thank you for all your prayers and support!
God Bless,
Bri