Brooke and Kat

Brooke and Kat are the new girls. They came to teach, but because they could not get a working visa since they are right out of high school, they have to take classes. So they will be around a lot I am sure... I hope I love these girls.

Brooke

Kathrine (Kat)

Mandy and Kat
(Kat turned my camera to Black and white and it took me a while to notice, than took me a while to figure out how to turn it back! lol)

Brooke

Kat and Brooke, practicing Tia chi?

Tai Dong

Tai Dong (Phonics: Tie D-on-ga)

We not only have a wal*mart, it's a super wal*mart!

And a 5 start Pizza Hut!

The American Special: Pepperoni Pizza
The best Pizza in all of China... yum yum!

Qingdao Culture Street

We do not have castles here in Qingdao
This would be part of the European influence

All the shops on culture street

Qingdao Painting and Antique Street

Tai Don is pretty easy to navigate

Watermelon on a stick
you can put just about anything on a stick in China

The night market!

A few days later we went back with Paul and he took us to Beer street...

Made out of beer bottles!

One of the out door offices!

The Qingdao Beer festival starts Friday September 19th and goes til October 4th.

Beach babies

Babysitting on the beach!

We buried Salen in the sand...

He loved being under the sand... so cute.

Brit and Amy (her friend) running and playing on the beach

Kim-Marie also enjoyed playing in the sand
adorable

i love my kids... here are a few

I promised you pictures of my kids...

This is Thomas
He wears his Thomas the tank engine shirt often, that is how i remembered his name when i was learning all the kids names.

Min Zi (Phonics: Min Z-eye)

This is one of my Da (big/older) classes

Joni

David

Rico and one of my Xiao (small/young) classes

Genna
She came to the school without an English name,
So I named her Genna after my best friend and little sister

Ken
This little boy came to the school with out and English name,
So I named him after two men i highly respect and love dealy,
my Dad and little brother.

Adam
This little boy also needed and English name,
So i named him after some one who is always positive and encouraging,
someone i look up to very much
my cousin Adam

Jin

As time goes on I will take more pictures of my kids so you can see them all!
they are all so precious!

They are leaving us!

Our Friends are leaving the country and they will be greatly missed...

Elisabeth went back to Germany last weekend :o(

Paul goes back to the US this weekend

Grape Picking

We got to go grape picking with the school...

Brook is picking off the vine...
the white bags help keep bus off the grapes, but some of the bags were full of raisins

Kat is picking grapes

Jude wore the grapes

Purple Grapes and Green Grapes
Fat Grapes and Thin Grapes

Beautiful View

These are my favorite! Yum yum

We were able to eat them right off the vine

Me, Brooke, Kat, Mandy
Yum Yum

MY Birthday!!!!

Mandy and Brooke took me to club new york sat night to see tony play.
Tony and his wife Zoryah are in our fellowship.

Brooke and I

This is Zoryah, her and her husband are from the philipines.
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Monday on my birthday(and pauls bday), mandy was going to cook us all dinner. BUT the stove ran out of gas, and we were not able to fill it til wen. Something we were not warned about.
But it worked out, we ended up going to the market and getting food
us on the bus

the market to get food, they cook it and bag it there... it is some yummy food.


We made some good finds.

And when we got home we spred it all out and had a feast!



Then we got presents!!


Kat and brooke made our gifts... apparently i remind them of a sunbeam and paul a poo...lol.

We had some good cake.

And headed to the beach.

Some of them went int o the ocean, Regina and i decided to take pictures instead...

After they went swimming...

Birthday Buddies!