A lot to say!

I've got a lot to say folks so fasten your seat belts and keep your eyes on the road! First of all, I won't be able to continue writing a lot becasue my computer has unfortunately crashed. Yes it is a very sad story, and I won't have it until I get home and get it fixed. Thus, my roommates will hate me for bumming off them when I need it. They were actually really sweet to offer it to me whenever I need it, but I hate asking. Anyways, that kind of butes. Oh well, I can do hard things. So I've been told..
Secondly, we went to district conference in Shenzen which was awesome! We rented a bus and all drove out there. It was cool seeing other members of the church. They fed us an awesome meal, and we came out very filled, both spiritually and physically.
Thirdly, We just had mid semester visits! That was kind of a scary thing or so we thought. But in reality, it wasn't that bad. It mostly went down like this: We cleaned a lot to give the impression that we weren't slobs, we spent hours preparing really good lessons, we stressed a bit, we stayed up and watched the Grinch and made christmas decorations, he came and watched us teach, it wasn't that bad, we went to lunch, He interviewed us about how things are, he talked with the group and gave us awesome advice about teaching. It made me feel like a terrible teacher for not thinking of it before, and a worse teacher when I tried it and it didn't actually work the way he said it would. Just kidding it actually helped a ton and it made a lot of sense. He makes it sound so easy. He talked a lot about routines and how important they are for children. It's what they lean on especially here where they don't understand what we say necessarily. He talked about getting their attention to stop them from being crazy. You just have to be super animated and make them forget what they were doing in the first place. It's actually genious and I wish I wwas that good. He also talked about tokening and how you token a few kids at a time instead of all of them . That way they're focusing and speak more because they won't know when they'll be tokened. He also mentioned a good way to squash the chinese speaking bug. The kids still speak chinese in class a lot and its detrimental to the learning! I tried it friday and it actually worked really well. Anyways, I'm not making much sense now, but it was really  awesome.
The next day my first class was soooooo fun. The kids seriously loved it and I had a blast and it was just really animated and they were so entertained. The only problem with always keeping them on their toes is that it's slightly draining... Our lesson was going to the moon. I showed them a picture of a rocket and told them we are all in the rocket. Who wants to go to the moon? Ok here we go put your seat belts on! Hold on tight!5 4 3 2 1 Blast off!!! I shook the table and chairs and broke through the atmosphere. In space we looked out the window and saw the planets and stars. We crash landed on the moon and took a space walk. It was a blast and they thought it was hilarious. The other classes got a little crazy with it, but hey I tried. A for effort, high five.
This weekend has been a good one for sure. Friday we got dresses! Only I will know what this is about. :) Then we got a smoothie, and stayed up watching movies. This morning we went to the park with some of the chinese teachers and some of our younger kids! I'll tell you it was such a blast. They are seriusly so adorable. We basically just played with themm sang with them, and ate snacks. We took a little boat ride and enjoyed each others company, all the while, precious little Aubrey and I bonded deeply. The whole time she just couldn't stay away from me and held my hand and just wanted to play. It melted my heart. She's just the sweetest girl in the world and I adore her. Here's a million pictures to prove it. :) Coming right up. She's always been a perfect child, but I'm so glad we got to have so much fun and get close! Ahh I want kids and can't wait for the day. Yeah that was a little weird to say... I was in the moment. Anyways, I seriously adore these kids with every fiber of my being. IT was so precious that she chose me over everyone to sit with at lunch ,(which was amazing by the way but might have given maddie and I food poisening) and ride in her car, and hold her hand. I love kids. I love my kids, I don't want to leave them and I dead that day. :( Anywho, it was a very lovely morning and made my day. We were exhausted so came home and napped for a minute, then went to Mikey's parents' store for dinner. It was soooo good! they were so sweet and it was a blast. He's seriously such a cute kid. The food was good except at one point the food poisening, or whatever it was hit me and Mikey showed me and maddie where the bathroom was. I was kind of overcome by nausea and just felt really sick. When I was chillin there for like 10 minutes, mikey said to maddie, "Is teacher Andrea ok?" Then he came in saying, "Andwea? Andwea? Are you ok?" It was adrable and I was really embarrassed. Good news is, I felt a little better after. I'm sorry for telling that awful story but I want to rmember it.
All in all, we had an awesome weekend and we get to go to church tomorrow, then beijing on thursday! And a shout out to Preston Stratford who comes home Friday! I'm so excited for him and his family! Love you guys!
There's exactly a month from today, we realized, until we go home. That blows my mind. It is going to flyyyy by and I don't like the sound of that. :( I lov china and I'm so blessed to be here!

Our new found friendship

She's seriously precious

A candid laughing moment with Habibi

Little Norah makes my heart melt. She Aubrey and Kaycee are besties, it's pretty cute.

Oscar has probably the cutest, most puppy like face I've seen. He's so adorable I  could just eat him up.

aubrey and megan!

London bridges falling down. Its pretty popular with the kids. 

The kids and teachers! You have Jessica, Gordan, Aubrey, Neville, Rabbit, Norah, John and oscar. I love these kids. 

Such a cool little park!

This is how is was the whole time. Tell me that's not adorable. 

We ran into Ava dear at dinner!

Love Maddie! 

Rabbit and Owen, Gordan's brother

Aubrey and I eating dinner!

Neville, Gordan, his brother Owen, and Habibi. Adorable little men.

The girls! Maddie/ Rabbit, Megan/Norah, Me/Aubrey

Habibi!