tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-57280472468634119942024-03-21T23:16:17.221-07:00WOODn't you like to know?Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12666193539783648678noreply@blogger.comBlogger86125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5728047246863411994.post-60035195820705329352018-06-14T13:20:00.001-07:002018-06-14T13:20:57.218-07:00DAY 3- Fishing, ant attack and travel day<br />
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We only had a few hours this day so we went fishing in the morning for our lunch and then went on a jungle hike/walk. We had no luck fishing, but it was a good thing that the locals did because they brought a giant net and were able to catch us lunch! After a couple hours of that we headed out into the jungle. It was really pretty and fun to be out in the amazon. We were talking with a few of the girls and I felt something bite my neck..and suddenly I felt ants crawling and biting all over my head! I started freaking out and made Sam and a few of the girls look in my hair and they pulled out at least 15 ants that had been biting my head. My the end, the bun on top of my head turned into a mop and I finally calmed down and we got back to the walk. We found a giant swing and played on it for a while. Then we headed back to camp and packed up to catch our flight to Cochabamba. I would say that our time in the Amazon was well spent and I had to keep pinching myself to see if it was a dream!<br />
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We all made it through the airport and flight and were welcomed by our local coordinator Luis, he is the man! We were now in the city of Cochabamba and jumped on our bus and headed straight to dinner. We went to a hotel and we were the only ones in the restaurant, it was really fancy! We are a traditional Bolivian meal and I had no idea what it was, but everyone loved it! We met the Catholic Priest who is in charge of the Orphanage that we would be working on the next week and enjoyed dinner together. It was fun to get acquainted and talk about the project. After dinner we headed back to our hostel and it is so beautiful! It was pretty late but there were so many things to do, so the kids played volleyball, talked in the hammocks, played the piano and cards and we had our first official night in the city!<br />
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12666193539783648678noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5728047246863411994.post-14781474413792075452018-06-14T13:17:00.003-07:002018-06-14T13:17:23.501-07:00DAY 2 in Chuchini<br />
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We woke up this morning and got dressed for a day on the river! They told us that we would be swimming in the very water that we caught alligators in the night before...and even though it was a little unsettling at first, I knew that we wouldn't be doing anything if it was too dangerous so we just trusted our guides! We ate breakfast right by the river and hung out in hammocks while studying the scriptures before heading out and it was so peaceful. After breakfast, we jumped on the boat and looked for different animals. We were the only people on the entire river it felt like. We sat on the boat and started really getting to know our kids which was super fun! We saw monkeys, all sorts of birds, capybaras, fish, pink dolphins and an anaconda. Not only did we see the giant snake but I held it!! It was terrifying and thrilling all at the same time.<br />
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After a few hours on the water we stopped at what seemed like a private island. We jumped off the boat and were excited to play in the sand. Little did we know, that sand was actually quick sand which then turned into mud. It was so fun to play around and then our guide threw a chunk of mud at me which was the begging of a mud war! At first the kids were hesitant to join in, but after a little everyone was covered in mud and we were playing capture the flag and all DRENCHED in mud. We played there for hours on end and then enjoyed a nice lunch on the sand. We hung out for the rest of the afternoon and got some good sun, played games and hung out. It was our favorite day! After a few more hours, we jumped back on the boat and this time I sat on top of the boat on a lawn chair with Kate, Emma, and Sam. It was beautiful from the top and we had an amazing view of the river, trees and animals. We played games, did riddles and watched the sun set over the river and it was truly an unforgettable moment. We were almost home and decided to stop and fish for Piranas for a little...and unfortunately fishing is not our forte, so we headed back to the hostel. We showered and got ready for dinner and a night at the museum. The family that hosted us had found hundreds of ancient artifacts and skulls of things found 8,000 years BC. It was really amazing to learn about all of it! After that we played card games, werwolf and had girl talk before heading to bed. It was such a great day!<br />
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<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12666193539783648678noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5728047246863411994.post-73662773330677023192018-06-14T13:16:00.002-07:002018-06-14T13:16:46.719-07:00Airports, Amazon and Alligators!<br />
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Have you ever traveled with a group of 23 people to a brand new country? It was crazy to say the least! The kids all met up and we had some pizza for dinner and waited around until we could check in for our flight. When we were waiting, we were getting to know each other a little bit and playing games. As we started checking our bags through security, my Spanish was immediately put to the test! We were checking in with the Bolivian airline and I was in front of the line of 19 youth, and some of them had never traveled alone or out of the country before so I wanted to make sure it was a smooth experience. It was pretty stressful trying to get everyone's bags checked in, but we were finally able to and we breezed right through security. We took another red eye flight through the night and made it to Bolivia around 6am which was 4am in the states. So we moved around in zombie-like fashion and made it to our connecting flight. We had a longish layover in Santa Cruz so we met up with a friend named Brigham. He took up to breakfast where we ate empanadas and all sorts of bread. It was nice to get out of the airport after 24 hours. We drove around for a couple hours to kill time and then headed back to catch our next flight. We flew from Santa Cruz to Trinidad which was only a couple hours away.<br />
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When we landed in Trinidad, the airport was so tiny it felt like a car wash or something of the sort. We were so tired, but then we met up with our host Ephraim and we loaded up in a bus, van and jeep! We were kind of confused but we just rolled with it. I jumped in the jeep with 3 other girls and it literally felt like jumped into a real life game of Jumanji! It was so run down and bumpy as we began our on-land part of the journey to get to the amazon. We bounced up and down in the jeep for about 30 minutes and were enjoying all of the greenery, it is so beautiful here!! After the bumpy jeep ride, we all met up again and took our luggage down a huge dirt hill and onto a BOAT! Turns out the place we stayed at was a hostel in the middle of the jungle and we had to take a boat to get there. The ride was so peaceful and right from the start we saw so many different types of animals. We were on the boat for about an hour and finally got to our destination after two days of traveling! We pulled up and were greeted by a Swiss lady and her family. They had fresh orange juice for us and showed us to our room.<br />
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Even though we were exhausted, we didn't want to waste any time so we had dinner right away and then headed to ALLIGATOR hunting! We jumped on the boat and headed out for a night on the water with our headlamps and flashlights. At first I thought we were just going to be looking for alligators and watch them, but our friend Ephraim caught them with his bare hands! Throughout the night he probably caught about 10, it was un-real. I had never seen anything like it. We all took turns passing the alligator around like it was a newborn baby haha. I was way scared but SO glad that I held it! I was one of the last ones so I threw it back into the water. I had to rub it's belly to make it more calm before dropping it back in the water. It was honestly such a hilarious experience! We laughed until we cried and also cried because we were so nervous but it was amazing! I would say the Amazon welcomed us with open arms.<br />
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<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12666193539783648678noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5728047246863411994.post-71793756803436215192018-06-14T13:15:00.001-07:002018-06-14T13:16:27.398-07:00VIVA BOLIVIA!!<br />
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On to the next adventure which is BOLIVIA! I am stoked to be a party of Humanitarian Experience for Youth or HEFY. Here's a little background. I applied to be a trip leader when I was back in China and ended up being chosen a few months later. The time has finally come and we are on our way. Leading up to the trip, I met my co trip leader Sam and right from the start we were so excited to be trip leaders and instantly became best friends. We had to get Visas, do CPR certifications and lots of background checks, but we checked everything off the list and headed to Trip Leader Training. We went to the Zermatt resort in Midway, Utah and met all the other amazing people that were also headed on trips this summer. It was so fun to meet people who love the youth and love traveling as much as we did! We learned so much and I knew that this was what I was supposed to be doing for the summer. So here we are now!<br />
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Last night I had two red eye flights, from SLC to Orlando then from there to Miami, I met a few boys that were headed to Argentina for their trips and it was fun to run around the airport together even though we kept getting lost haha. But here we are now and I am anxiously waiting to meet my group of kids! Sam has been in Japan for the past week so he will be flying around the same time they are. I am so excited to get this thing rollin. I have a 14 hour layover and have been running out of things to do while waiting here. The builders should be getting here soon and I can't wait to meet them!<br />
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<span style="font-family: '.SFUIText'; font-size: 17pt;">So i am now sitting on my last train back to Guzhen!! It really feels like I am going home, because it's been mine for 3 months now so I love the feeling. But I just had to say that the sleeper train was soooo much better coming back than it was going there!! I was able to get a sleeper bed, so I actually slept pretty well. We boarded around 5pm on Sunday and got to Guangzhou at 7am this morning. I was able to sit by my friends for a while and it was so fun! We loaded up on snacks and good chocolate AND I found Diet Coke!!!! It is a really rare gem to find here in china...so I bought 3 cans and am saving them for when I need it after a long day of teaching. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: '.SFUIText'; font-size: 17pt;">I love all of the girls that I am with here! You definitely get close to people when you are going though hard times, so I'm grateful for all of the friendships that I have made here. With my American friends as well as the random travelers we've met from all over, and of course our Chinese teachers and helpers. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: '.SFUIText'; font-size: 17pt;">My heart is seriously so full, and I am at peace with where I'm at in this journey. The last few weeks have been really hard because Lily ended up having to go back home to the states. So I've been really sad without her for the last few days, but at the same time happy because she is home with my momma and can be seen by better doctors. I'm so thankful for this trip!! And looking forward to a few more before my time is up here! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: '.SFUIText'; font-size: 17pt;">The crazy thing about this park was that it was HUGE and so confusing, it would be like going to Zions national park for one day and trying to see everything, and navigate the bus system in a different language...so it was kind of hard but getting lost is our forte now haha. So we entered into the park and stumbled into MONKEY paradise!! It was the last thing we expected but it was so cool.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: '.SFUIText'; font-size: 17pt;">There were monkeys everywhere...and I mean everywhere. At first they were sort of shy, but once we accidentally pulled out a granola bar, they came down in packs of 20. They would just run around us and open our backpacks...they are so smart! All was fun and games until they started growling at the end and followed us out of there. I learned to never make a monkey angry because then I was just walking in straight fear!! Once we left there we hopped onto a bus in hope of finding the cable cars to take us up the mountain. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: '.SFUIText'; font-size: 17pt;">We made our way to a giant set of stairs, and started walking up not knowing where it would lead, little did we know MORE monkeys would be joining us on the path, and as cute as they were, we were scared at this point so we just booked it up the stairs! We made it to a little village, took another bus and then ended up at the cable cars. We took one all the way up to the top and finally saw some of the mountains. It was breath taking!!! Seriously something that I wish everyone could see with their own eyes. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: '.SFUIText'; font-size: 17pt;">We got lost again and jumped on about 10 different buses trying to find a good lookout spot, and we came upon one by accident of course and it was pure magic! I wish I could explain how high up we were, but just trust me it was such a huge mountain! After waking and hiking around and taking pics with 173895 strangers, we played in the rain and headed down. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: '.SFUIText'; font-size: 17pt;">To get down we took an outdoor glass elevator!!! Again, the tallest one in the world! My friend and I were right at the front of it, and it was so cool to go from the tip top to the bottom of these mountains in 2 minutes. We made new friends with these cute old people in line, and I showed them how to use Snapchat..also a highlight of my day!! Maybe I'll try to post a video on here because it made my heart so happy. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: '.SFUIText'; font-size: 17pt;">Then we walked down and got lost again, in the rain, and it was soooo cold and getting dark at this point. We were about to just call it and find a taxi home, but we looked up and finally saw a sign for the bus!!! It was honestly a miracle. So we got on the bus and headed an hour and a half back into town. It was such a good day!! China never ceases to amaze me. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: ".sfuitext"; font-size: 17pt;">Okay we have had some really cool vacations, but this is seriously one for the books!! It was also a really last minute trip for me so I am so so thankful that I was able to go, thank you to my mom and everyone that made it possible. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: ".sfuitext"; font-size: 17pt;">First of all, we had to take a bus from Guzhen to the train station, one train to the metro, to another SLEEPER train over night. But since I bought my tickets so last minute I didn't get a bed, so I had to sit in a straight up chair for 15 hours, away from my friends, and people were smoking and slurping on their noodles and talking SO loud but it's okay because I survived and I never have to do that again hahahah. We made it to ZHANGJIAJIE (pronounced zong jah jeeah) the next morning and then checked into our hostel that I scored for only 10 bucks a night! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: ".sfuitext"; font-size: 17pt;">The first day we went to tianemen mountain, and if you are ever planning on coming to china, this is a MUST. seriously like changing. So we took a cable car-the longest one in the world actually-through the city and up into the mountains. It was a really foggy day so it felt like we were literally in the clouds. After 30 minutes we made it to the top and there was seriously so much to see. We walked around and got lost a few times but through that, we ended up seeing some of the coolest things! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: ".sfuitext"; font-size: 17pt;">So we walked on the edge of a cliff essentially, and you couldn't even see the surrounding mountains because it was so foggy and eerie, it felt like we were in a movie, or like heaven it was so surreal. We walked across a glass bridge so we could see all the way down and it was soooo far down to the bottom. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: ".sfuitext"; font-size: 17pt;">Then my favorite part....I have always wanted to dress up in traditional clothes and there was a beautiful red dress and crown and I knew that I had to try it on. So I did and it was SO fun!! I was dancing around on the top of this mountain and literally felt like a queen. The cutest group of old ladies came up and they were taking pictures and videos and it was priceless. Seriously one of the highlights of my entire time here!! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: ".sfuitext"; font-size: 17pt;">Then we walked a little further down and stumbled upon the forest of wishes. There were tons and tons of ribbons decorating the trees, so we decided to put our wishes on there too. We walked up to the very top and I found a branch that didn't have one because I felt bad for it...so I wanted it to feel some love. And there lies my wish! It was so peaceful and there was a sacred feeling about that place. People from all over the world put their wishes, desires and prayers up there and you could really feel that. It was so peaceful, and I just closed my eyes and tried to soak in the moment. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: ".sfuitext"; font-size: 17pt;">After that we kept hiking/dancing along the trails, and found a huge bridge! It was so foggy, you couldn't see where it led to. Then we ran into a little maze, so that was fun to go through. We also saw a giant temple where people would put heart locks on, with their loved ones. There were locks everywhere and it was so beautiful!! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: ".sfuitext"; font-size: 17pt;">A little ways down we found 5 temples, and a lot of different statues, there were people praying and lighting incense, and it started to rain so it was a sight to see! After that we headed to a giant natural hole in the mountain, it's called the stairway to heaven! Since we were at the top we had to take 10 escalators down to get to the giant hole, it was breathtaking! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: ".sfuitext"; font-size: 17pt;">Once we got to the top we had to walk down 1,000 stairs...which is better than walking up it but here's a secret about me. I have a fear of walking down stairs because one time I was walking down holding a toddler and I slipped and broke my foot (don't worry the little girl was okay) and that was yearssss ago but I still freak out going down stairs!!! So 1,000 was quite a struggle and my feet didn't fit on them because they were tiny and SO steep. So I held on to the rails and took my sweet sweet time getting down hahah so many people tried to help me but I just did my own thing. And I MADE IT DOWN. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: ".sfuitext"; font-size: 17pt;">Then we had to take a bus down the mountain down the curly roads, there are literally 99 turns, and they are so sharp!! So I closed my eyes since we would get so close to the other buses and we made it down. I felt so peaceful up on that mountain though, it was so refreshing!! What a day!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: '.SFUIText'; font-size: 17pt;">Okay so it's been a minute since I've written because our wifi situation has been scary lately. But I figured it was time to update!! It's been about 2 weeks since our last update and things have been a little more intense here. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: '.SFUIText'; font-size: 17pt;">My sweet sister Lily has been having really sharp stomach pains, and we have gone to the ER twice and 4 hospitals total. Each doctor has diagnosed her with something different, but none of the meds have worked yet. One crazy thing that happened at the first ER visit was around 3 am and we realized that they put the Iv in her hand the wrong way...so the fluid went into her skin and inflated like a BALLOON! It took a couple days for the swelling to go down but it finally did! The doctors remedy for the swelling was to rub it with a potato...not really sure how that was supposed to help hahaha. So she hasn't been able to teach and I've just been trying to help and so has everyone here. We will give updates as they happen, but she will be okay!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: '.SFUIText'; font-size: 17pt;">Besides that, things have been cruising along here! I feel like I have painted a picture of what I want china to be but some days it's actually really hard! The kids are so cute, but definitely a little psycho, and the rice and squatters are getting soooo old. But the important thing for me to remember is that this is a once in a lifetime opportunity and I just need to find reasons to smile and laugh every day! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: '.SFUIText'; font-size: 17pt;">Today is Sunday and we had a devotional with all the girls here and we talked a lot about gratitude! So that is something that I'm doing to do a lot more for our last month and a half here. I really am grateful to be here and for all of the people who have supported us in this crazy adventure! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: ".sfuitext"; font-size: 17pt;">We discovered a new city that's about 45 minutes on a bus away, and it is EXACTLY like California. We were so excited because it had a really cute walking street, and everyone was so friendly. The buildings were all white and pastel colors, and behind them was a hugeeee park with a pagoda (Chinese temple) on the tippy top! It was literally picture perfect everywhere. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: ".sfuitext"; font-size: 17pt;">We were only about 5 minutes down the street and we saw this man making cotton candy, so we had to get some!! It was the BIGGEST treat I've ever seen. Watching him make it was so mesmerizing. Sometimes, when my students are extra crazy I show them this video to get them back to focus hahah. It was so yummy! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: ".sfuitext"; font-size: 17pt;">One of my favorite parts about china is the shopping because it's SO cheap! I'm talking chunky sweaters and denim jackets for like 7 bucks. And they are good quality. So we have figured out how to bargain and that has been really helpful! We shopped around for a few hours and then stopped at a restaurant called YOLO for some drinks and the smoothies were SO GOOD. After that we hiked up to the pagoda and the walk was sooooo green and beautiful. There were families all around and it was a gorgeous sunny day. It was under construction, but it's been there for 3,000 years!! I thought that was pretty cool</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: ".sfuitext"; font-size: 17pt;">We have gone there twice now and it is just as beautiful every time! It literally feels like we are in a different world when we go there, so I'm glad that it's only a bus ride away. We are going to a new city next weekend and we are so excited! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: '.SFUIText'; font-size: 17pt;">This is a recap of the week after our vacation! The first day when we got home we celebrated the moon festival at the school with all of the teachers on top of the roof at night. We had no idea what to expect so as they were setting up we ran around with the little kids and sing songs and danced with them. After about an hour, we were served a ton of food. we had a lot of Ramen noodles and yummy drinks, but then there was an added surprise. It is a delicacy here to eat duck tongue… And I knew that I wanted to try that before going home, so I figured since it was free, why not?! I have to say it was seriously the most disgusting thing I have ever eaten and, keep in mind that I ate a lot of weird things on my mission and Honduras too. Including iguana, dove, pig ears and possum! So I honestly didn't think it would be a big deal, but it was so gross I had to spit it out! But for some odd reason right after I tried the dock tongue I was presented with chicken feet, so I decided I might as well try that too. It also had the same effect… It didn't go over very well.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: '.SFUIText'; font-size: 17pt;">The rest of the week was fun though, we finally figured out how to watch some TV because everything is blocked here. But we found the Chinese version of YouTube and watched an entire season of Project runway. It is definitely going to become a reward for us to be able to watch it, but who knew I had a designer side?! Haha Teaching was good this week, I was in charge of games so that was really fun for the kids! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: '.SFUIText'; font-size: 17pt;">At the end of the week we we are finally able to go to church! We haven't been able to go for a little over a month because it is hard to get there. So he took a two hour bus ride and ended up being really late because of the rain. We made it to the last 10 minutes of Sunday school and all of relief society. It was nice to be able to feel the spirit and connect with other people of our faith because it is so rare here. After that we went to the best Mexican restaurant that China has to offer! It was decorated so cute in there and the food was really yummy, we were in heaven. After a couple hours we headed back home. It ended up being a 10 hour day, so we were pretty tired. But I am so grateful that we got the opportunity to go!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: '.SFUIText'; font-size: 17pt;">The day we traveled back home to Guzhen was a day that I will definitely never forget! We had an early flight, so we had to leave our hostel around 530 in the morning. We jump on the metro, and ended up having to take an extra one to get to the airport. We arrived there around 7 o'clock am, and our flight left at 8:15. The Shanghai airport was one of the craziest that I have ever been to. So, we were running around from check-in desk to check in desk trying to print out our tickets, but we kept running into problems. We would run to a kiosk and try to print it out but it didn't work. So by this point it is literally 7:40 and we still hadn't gone through security yet… So we finally found a man who spoke English, sort of, and he helped us print out all seven of our tickets.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: '.SFUIText'; font-size: 17pt;">It turns out that because we got to the airport so late all of the other seats were chosen. We were so beyond thrilled, excited, and exhausted from running around all morning. It literally felt like a dream. They came out with drinks every 10 minutes, we got served an entire meal, we got slippers, a down comforter blanket, a pillow, and were able to watch endless movies! Clearly, I had never been able to fly like that so it was such a dream!! I seriously felt like royalty, all of us did it was amazing. Then after we got off reluctantly, we found a bus that took us two hours back to our city. I was actually really happy to be home once we are finally there. It's crazy that this little town has become my home in such a short amount of time. Our flight today was the perfect end to a crazy vacation! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: '.SFUIText'; font-size: 17pt;">When we got there, everything was decorated like Halloween and we felt like we were home! We ran to the Tron ride, which is a rollercoaster, but you lay on it like a motorcycle and it was so futuristic and fun! Then we watched the parade and after, zippidy-do-da came on so we started dancing in the street and got a hugeeee crowd of people filming us and taking pics, we felt like we were part of the parade. It was so fun! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: '.SFUIText'; font-size: 17pt;">So like everyone else I am absolutely OBSESSED with their churros, especially since we eat pretty much just rice every day, i had literally been dreaming about them. So we made sure to load up on those and treats all day. All of the rides were so fun and unique. Another fave was pirates because it was from the second movie!! And much faster than the original one. We also saw a pirates play and jack sparrow flew over the audience, and we went wild!! The special effects were amazinggg even though we didn't even understand one word haha. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: '.SFUIText'; font-size: 17pt;">After the play the lines were crazy so we decided to go to CHEESECAKE FACTORY. If was exactly what it's like in the states, so. Yummy. I should post more pics of what we actually eat every day because I want people to understand why we are obsessed when we get yummy food. But then we headed back to the park for a couple more hours until they kicked us out. It was seriously the happiest day!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: ".sfuitext"; font-size: 17pt;">This zoo was seriously SO big! You could rent bikes to ride around to get to everything but we just walked/danced every where because it was more fun for us that way. The weather was amazing and we were all in good spirits that day. It was so refreshing! It was fun to all all of these families with their little kids and grandparents all together for the Chinese holiday. We saw so many animals, but my favorite was the baby tigers, I left a piece of my heart with them there that day. Their moms abandoned them so they get to hang out in the nursery until they grow older. </span></div>
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We headed straight to this awesome restaurant that we found the night before because they had REAL burgers and AUTHENTIC tacos. We were seriously in heavennn. ALSO the hostel we stayed at had Diet Coke and that was the first time that I've had it in 6 weeks. I literally shed a tear because I was so excited haha. We went back to the hostel and I played pool with my new French friend Maxim and I actually won fair and square! What a day!Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12666193539783648678noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5728047246863411994.post-41007216918843122272017-10-24T01:07:00.001-07:002017-10-24T01:07:13.864-07:00<div style="color: #454545; font-family: '.SF UI Text'; font-size: 17px; line-height: normal;">
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<span style="font-family: '.SFUIText'; font-size: 17pt;">This was my favorite day in Beijing by far! We decided to call a tour bus company the night before around 9pm to see if they had any openings for the following day, and we got lucky and they had enough room for us! We woke up around 6 am after only getting 5 hours of sleep and hopped on the giant tour bus. Our tour guide's name is Emily, she is a native from China and so so so sweet. Our first stop was at the jade factory. We learned about how they craft this beautiful stone into amazing jewelry and artwork. It was so interesting! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: '.SFUIText'; font-size: 17pt;">After that we headed to an emperors tomb, the park was beautiful where it was and we were getting closer to the mountains. Sadly we didn't plan our outfits very well because all of the other days had been really hot so we dressed for summer, but surprise. It was FREEZING! We were the only ones not wearing huge coats and scarves, so we were running around trying to get warm. After that, we headed up the mountains to the wall! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: '.SFUIText'; font-size: 17pt;">We ate at a really yummy place for lunch and it's kind of like a buffet, they keep bringing you plates of food on a round spinning table until you're full. Lily and I made some new friends and chatted with people from the U.K. And Australia, they were very nice. After that we bought our tickets to take a ski lift up to the top of the mountain and then to slide down! It was raining and soooo cold but we were so excited! Lily and I sang the whole way up and said hi to everyone passing by. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: '.SFUIText'; font-size: 17pt;">Once we were up there, we had two hours to explore, climb through the watch towers, and take pictures. It was seriously breathtaking. I felt like we were on top of the world! It was crazy because the stairs were so crooked so you had to watch every single step and stop every couple to look up and enjoy the view. But it was amazing!!! We met a lot of new friends and then as we were about to slide down, found out that the slide was closed because it was too wet so we took the ski lift back down. It was still way worth it though, and now I can say that I have been to one of the 7 wonders of the world! Now I have a goal to make it to the other 6. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: '.SFUIText'; font-size: 17pt;">After the wall we went to an ancient tea party palace. It was so cool to watch how they would make it and seeing what they used! My personal favorite was the Jasmine Flower tea...for obvious reasons ;) haha. It was nice to warm up after being freeing all day. Then we headed to bed and packed for Shanghai the next day!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: '.SFUIText'; font-size: 17pt;">Okay so we are officially on our long vacation and we are soooo thrilled about it!! Getting to Beijing was quite the long day, but we made it and we're so happy to be there. We took a tuk-tuk to the bus station, bus, flight, and taxi to make it to our hostel. We left at 1pm from Guzhen and got to Beijing around 2am....so we were exhausted but happy to be in the cooler weather. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: '.SFUIText'; font-size: 17pt;">The first day we got there we went to Sun Park which we were hoping would be a huge amusement park with rides and a water park....but sadly it turned out to be an abandoned kiddy park hahah. It was a huge park but nothing like we expected, we had to take 5 different metros to get there so we were tired and walked and walked and walked around to find something cool but there wasn't much. However, we found Coke so I was super happy! My hat in the picture says LGLO and it is a hat that my good friend Taylor Downey created, meaning Love God Love Others, and I was so excited to wear it. I am so proud of him for being brave to create this brand, and I recommend it to everyone!! Such a cute hat with an even greater meaning. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: '.SFUIText'; font-size: 17pt;">The second day we headed to Tieneman Square, and tried to see some historical sites. This day also ended up being one where we walked and walked and walked, but it was beautiful!! It was fun to be in a big city and it was the Chinese national Holliday so there were flags and people EVERYWHERE. my favorite part of this day (besides eating real burgers at a real Sizzler restaurant haha) was meeting our new friends from Australia. Nicholas, Ben, and Max ended joining us for the day of sight seeing, and it was so fun hearing about their culture and comparing accents. After a day of seeing the city we headed back to the hostel. There we met 3 French boys and another Australian where we traded stories, ate dinner and played guitar/sang/played cards and it was so fun!! Then we headed to bed for a short while before waking up early for the next day!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: '.SFUIText'; font-size: 17pt;">This week we were just busy busy busy teaching, and it actually flew by! Up until now teaching was a lot harder than I ever expected because the kids just see it as play time most of the time so it is hard to discipline, and they are always trying to tell me stuff in Chinese. Which is really sad when one of them is crying or sick and you can't really tell what they are saying, but the best part of this is just loving the heck out of them anyway and just hugging them and hoping they are learning English one arts and crafts lesson at a time haha. One of our girls had a birthday party and so we all got cake and watched Minions, I got attacked by loves from a couple of the little boys and it was so sweet!! I really think that I'm gonna miss these little stinkers when we're gone. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: '.SFUIText'; font-size: 17pt;">In other news, we have almost been here for an entire month!! I can hardly believe it. Most of the hard part is over and now we are enjoying it and just laughing our way through everything. Sleeping on the floor still sucks, but we are so tired it doesn't really matter. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: '.SFUIText'; font-size: 17pt;">This week was really low key but last night our principle/owner of the school invited us to her house to make dumplings! Her name is Joanne and she is a professional tea maker. We got to dinner and started making the dumplings. I didn't really like them before China, but now they are my favorite food!! It was so fun to learn how to make them from scratch. Then we went over to a table for tea time and it was so fun to watch her make it so gracefully. It was made from chrysanthemum flowers, dragon eye fruit and goji berries, it had a slight wood taste to it but we learned the proper etiquette and it was so intriguing to watch her do it. We came home full and happy and played endless rounds of Mafia which is our favorite! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: '.SFUIText'; font-size: 17pt;">Today (Sunday) was such a great and relaxing day! We watched the women's session of general conference together and it was so refreshing to hear from our leaders again. It was amazing to all share what we learned and felt and cool to have such a strong spirit with us even though we are so far away from home and familiar things. Church here is hard to come by, but we are doing what we can to Skype in and go when we aren't on vacations. Then we hung out and played games together as a group, there are 11 of us and we just got a married couple and we love them! Today was the first time that we all felt connected to each other and just so so happy, it was great. We had a family dinner and made pasta and garlic bread, it was so delicious! Overall, it was a great week and we are excited and ready for this upcoming one.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: ".sfuitext"; font-size: 17pt;">So we all woke up this morning wayyy sore and (sun)burned out so we decided to sleep in, get some American breakfast at our awesome hostel and chill for a little longer. Then we went on these little motor boats that we thought would be bamboo rafts...but it was sort of like that! We spent about an hour on the river and it was so peaceful. I was just admiring the beauty of this earth and realizing that the same God that created these amazingly unique mountains is the same one who created us, all different but all here to come together and help each other figure out this crazy life. It was awesome! Lily and I were singing Hamilton music for all the fans to hear, while soaking in the rays of sun on this hot hot hot day. We came home and rested for a little bit again and then headed back to our fave pizza place with all the girls from our group, it was so yummy! And we are so sad to go back to eating rice on rice on rice again this week haha. We walked around west street again and met some fun people. There were a lot of college students here to practice English so we talked to about 10 different small groups and they took pics with us. One gave us a little pen because it looked like her and she wanted us to remember her, she was so sweet! We went back and said bye to my bff at the drum store and then headed home for a girls night in. We watched a chick flick and all ended tearing up and cuddling each other haha. I love my girls that I'm here with. We are all so different but I've already found that we need each other in different ways. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: '.SFUIText'; font-size: 17pt;">We started off this morning thinking that we were going to have a relaxing day, riding mopeds around this beautiful city. Little did we realize that we actually didn't know how to drive the dang things and would be put to the test right away on to the busiest road in this town. We were off to a decent start, and I spent most of the time yelling at our tour guide Peter telling him to slow the freak down haha. We headed for the country side and about an hour in, lily decided she wanted to try and drive so we switched and waiting the first 2 minutes, we crashed and the bike fell on top of us, luckily we were going really slow but it was still painful. I took the wheel again and lily kept on being the photographer and entertainer. 2 hours into the ride we get to this dirt road in the mountains and start OFF ROADING on mopeds...not normal. The hill was so steep and we were slipping and sliding alllll over the place. We were in the back and as we got down said scary hill, saw two other bikes in a ditch with 2 injured girls, lots of cuts and blood (one knee got stitches later that day) and everyone came together to help. My friend missy even ripped her dress into a shirt so make 3 bandages for the girls with open wounds. So sweet! After we cleaned up, we ditched the bikes and headed down to the base of the mountain which is the tallest one in this city! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: '.SFUIText'; font-size: 17pt;">We thought it would be a 40 minute walk/hike BUT it ended up being straight uphill, with 90,000 steps (190 floors there and 190 back according to Ashely's step counter) 4 miles, and 10 ladders to get to the top. But the scary part was that it was on the side of a cliff with no railings so we were scared of falling off. Also it was 98 degrees with humidity of 87%, middle of the day with no shade so we were SO hot and the ladders were so sketchy everyone cried a little.....except our cute tourguide who surprised us with water and oranges at the top. So YES we made it and the view was amazingggggg. We were there for 30 minutes and then headed down. The way down was sketch but a lot faster to we were okay, I busted my knee on the way up so it hurt, and my legs were shaking so bad it was hard to balance but we had help and our fave China man tourguide legit held my hand as I almost fell again on the way down. We conquered this mountain and I am so proud of everyone that did it! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: '.SFUIText'; font-size: 17pt;">After that, we were sooo hungry and thirsty cause we had rationed our water. So we drove on the bikes for another 2 hours to the next town and had noodles, they were pretty nasty but we were grateful to have food. We went another 2 hours around these mountains and ended up by this beautiful bridge, drove another two through corn fields and cute little towns through MAIN STREET TRAFFIC with cars buzzing around everywhere, and on the "FREEWAY" and then we finally made it home!! We were so sunburned and exhausted that we bought sprite and chocolate bars for dinner and passed out. I am so thankful for challenges that make me stronger, but dang that was so hard to see in the moment. The view from the top was incredible and I wish that everyone would have been able to see it with their own eyes! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: ".sfuitext"; font-size: 17pt;">OK, so today was definitely an adventure! This morning we woke up and took an hour bus ride to go white water rafting. But it isn't just the normal white water rafting and that you would think… This is China style! So we got in a two person raft, and have no idea what was ahead. At least we had helmets and a life jacket… But we floated down the river and then they released the water and we shot down a huge drop off. The water was so fast and the bottom was rocky, but Lily and I laughed our heads off the entire time! We were literally floating down a Chinese jungle, the views were so amazing. I wish that everyone was able to see them. We were surrounded by green everywhere, it literally felt like a dream. But then every time we hit a huge bump we would wake up from it haha. We were rafting for about an hour, then headed back into the city.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: ".sfuitext"; font-size: 17pt;">After this, we took another short bus ride and then walked about 3 miles to get to mud caves! The first part of the tour was in a normal cave, there were LED lights everywhere and it was pretty amazing! Our Chinese tour guide was walking so very fast so it felt like we were jogging through the cave. At one point there was a giant sculpture that looked like a frog and he told us to kiss it and it would turn into a prince....kissed it and it didn't work hahah. After that section, we got to a giant mud pool! It was the weirdest sensation because we were able to float in the mud… They were also a couple slides and it was really fun. A bunch of tourists were walking by and they took our picture at every opportunity that they could. After this part, we walked down a little bit and there were hot springs! The water was coming right out of the cave wall, burning hot and it was so relaxing! After that we thought it was ending but there were fish tanks to get fish pedicures! Let's just say we only lasted about 30 seconds because we didn't like all the fish sucking on our feet haha. At least we can say we did it! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: ".sfuitext"; font-size: 17pt;">That was the end of our tour that day and we ended the night with some pizza and paparazzi, we ate outside and everyone was taking our picture, they love us here! And WE LOVE THEM </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: ".sfuitext"; font-size: 17pt;">What a day!! This morning after teaching we headed out for our first vacation!! We haven't been able to get out and explore a ton because we have been really busy with our students and teaching. We packed our backpacks and headed to Yangshou! We took a motor taxi, bus, fast train, other fast train, tour bus and city bus to get here but the journey was fun! They told us that the mountains here look like Dr. Suess mountains but I didn't really believe it until I saw it today with my own eyes, the mountains are so squiggly and beautiful!! During the train ride a lot of it looked like my first area of my mission in Santa Lucia Honduras, so it was bringing back the feels. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: ".sfuitext"; font-size: 17pt;">So we finally got here and checked into our hostel, the people are so so nice here and they speak English. I wish I could show you or reactions when we found out we get to sleep in real beds and have actual toilets, it's a miracle! We headed to dinner at this random restaurant and it turned out to be so yummy, it actually tasted like how we imagined Chinese food to taste like haha so good! Then we came back to the hostel and played card games while we planned the next day. After that we headed to west street to walk around. It's pretty much like Disneyland in China but with mostly adults and a lot more restaurants. It was so fun to walk around and window shop and people watch! There were people playing music on the street and it was just an open environment. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: ".sfuitext"; font-size: 17pt;">The best part of the night was stopping by a guy playing a bongo drum in a store, he turned on a song and we danced and sang and got a crowd of people to film us, it was the most fun we have had this entire trip! The owners name is Sodom and I can tell we are going to be besties this weekend. Another highlight was getting a real mcflurry here, but it was in a much cuter cup. This trip is already off to an amazing start!!!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Things were sooooo much better this weekend we are finally getting the hang of things around here! Now when we walk around, we know exactly when we need to plug our nose and hold our breath because it smells so awful it could kill. One funny thing about this place is that there are always (dead) ducks around here, we saw one get its head chopped off the other day...they love eating it over here. But we do not love it, surprise surprise! There is also a fruit here that smells like literal garbage...</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">So this week I was in charge of teaching gym. But they want us at the table for the first 15 minutes so it's pretty much crafts with a little bit of running around at the end haha. The kids always say " I love you teacher jassy" and I love it! They don't listen 80% of the time but when they do it's awesome. It's pretty much like trying to chase around a bunch of talking chickens and then once you get one in place another one gets up and then you just sing and dance and they watch you cause it's funny and then you teach some English along the way....that's the best way to sum up lessons hahah. Even though they give me a headache every day, they are so dang cute!! </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">So this weekend we were finally able to get out and see another city! It's only about a 30 minute bus ride from here to Xiolan (pronounced show-lawn) and it was so beautiful! First we went to a GIANT elephant and took some pictures and walked around the park. Then we went to a huge market and looked at clothes which are insanely cheap but everything here is China size so it doesn't fit haha. Especially not the shoes, which is what I wanted. After some shopping we went on these little paddle boats on a pond where you could see a giant temple! After the boat ride we went and hiked up the temple alllll the way to the top and I felt like I could see all of China it was so beautiful! After that we hiked down and found a Pizza Hut!!! We were so pumped for some American food so it was worth it for sure. Everyone is so nice to us here! We add people on we chat every day, it's like Chinese Facebook! </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">After dinner we got in some tuk-tuk (taxi like things) and headed to the bus station, but lily and I were in two different ones. My driver took us to a sketchy dark area and we were lost for about 10 minutes, a lot of people were coming up to us and trying to get us to go with them, but I finally called the other group and had the other girls in my group say a quick prayer. The other girls were freaking out too and out of no where a lady asked if they needed help, so she called me and talked to a random guy we met and helped us get back to the group. So after prayers and so many tiny miracles we made it back to each other. It was a huge testimony builder for us! </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">We were so so happy to make it to church finally!! After all of the new things and unfamiliar things in China, it felt really good to go back to something familiar. We had to take a 2 and a half bus ride there and back. We met in a house with about 30 members, they were from all over! Some from England, the Congo, Australia and lots from Utah and Arizona! They fed us food after and it was very yummy, and NOT rice! We were very tired but our hearts were full. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">We have just decided to embrace the craziness that China has to offer!! This week we are only teaching Monday- Thursday then we're headed off to Yangshou for a long weekend and it is jam packed with fun adventures so stay tuned!! </span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12666193539783648678noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5728047246863411994.post-45338000418014210412017-09-10T22:08:00.000-07:002017-09-11T07:33:45.705-07:00 Week One<br />
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Hey guys! Things have been so so so crazy the last couple of weeks so it has taken me this long to get around to actually writing! But, Lily and I are alive! I need to be completely honest and say that our first week here was really rough. People would ask us how we were doing and we would say that it was fun and then lily and I would look each other and laugh/cry because it was actually really hard. the travel here took a total of 35 hours.....35 HOURS people! I had done traveling like that before but it was so insane and exhausting. We flew from SLC to LA, then a 15 hour flight to Shanghai, 3 hour layover ( which I could write a whole separate post on just how nuts that was...Chinese everywhere, it was like 3 in the morning and we had to go through customs and all that not knowing anything they were saying haha) then we had a 3 hour flight to Zhongshan, waited 5 hours in the airport and then took a two hour bus ride to where we are now, at our home in Guzhen!!we are in southern china in the city of lights. literally every store on 5 of the big streets here sell GIANT light fixtures.. they are so beautiful, but we get yelled at if we take pictures of them.<br />
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Housing<br />
So after all of that crazy travel we finally got to our apartment. We were sooooo shocked at everything! We don't have real toilets, it's a squatty potty and our shower is right next to it with no curtain or anything. Also lily and I don't have real beds...or beds at all hahah. They built a stage in our room and we literally sleep on the wooden ground..well we have reallyr reallyyyyy thin mats, but the floor is the floor. We have ac though, so our room is always cold well at sixteen degrees Celsius to be exact haha. We love having it cold because it is SO hot and humid here! It's in the hundreds with ninety percent humidity!<br />
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Food<br />
The food here is soooooo scary! The first day we got here we were given duck with bones, rice and cooked lotus flower...not good. We eat lunch and dinner at the elementary school and it's always mystery meat and so. Much. Rice! At least we like the rice, good news is we have finallyfoundafew good noodle places, and a pizza place. They don't have sauce on it though...just cheese and pepperoni. All places like that give us gloves so that we don't get our hands greasy, it's great!<br />
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Teaching<br />
The first week we didn't teach, but we had a ton of meetings and met some of the kids. I teach k3 which are 5 &6 year olds. They love singing baby shark and 5 little monkeys. My kids know a lot of English and they are so hyper alllll the time. I get hugs and kisses every day and I need them because of all the stress they cause me during class!<br />
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Overall this week went okay and we are looking forward to exploring more and getting more teaching done this week! Our catchphrase every day is # Bringontherice<br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Hey Guys, WELCOME to our little blog! This was my mission blog but now will be filled with updates from our time in China as we go teach abroad. Today is our last day in the states and we are experiencing ALL the feels. Lily and I are so excited to get out there and volunteer and EXPLORE southern China for the next 5 months. Last night we had a going away party and we were so overwhelmed with love and excitement as we said bye to our loved ones. Thank you to everyone who came to support and to our family who has made this all possible. Tomorrow we are headed out to start our next adventure. I am SO excited to have my sister Lily by my side through this all. We still need to pack and do 123678 other things, but we really are just chillin and cuddling our younger siblings and puppies all day haha. We are going to miss the heck out of them. We love you all so much and want you to be a part of this journey with us, so stay tuned!! xoxo Jazz </span></div>
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<span class="s1">Hey guys, this week was a great one!! My comp and I aren't sick anymore and we got right back to work this week. We also had 2 baptisms..two little kids that are cousins and they were so excited! Their parents are inactive so having their kids as the newest members of the church will help then hopefully. </span></div>
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<span class="s1">this week was a lot better than the last one. And this will be my last week in this area because I will have changes next week..and I am so excited for that! I have learned to love my comp but I am ready for something new. And also just as I am getting to really love my area and the members...i have to say bye to them. Out of all the crazies here I have made some really great friends. </span></div>
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<span class="s1">This week we had a lot of chicken friends that wanted to come into our study sessions in the morning. Literally every morning at the same time when we are studying in walk 3 chickens into our house!! I have to run out with a broom and it scares the heck out of em...then they leave me alone haha. I always walk out screaming, this is not your house, we arent even neighbors!...it sounds a lot funnier in spanish haha. </span></div>
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<span class="s1">Also sundays we go eat with a family and they live in the mountains. It has been raining a lot this week so we had to walk in the mud...I had nice ish shoes on so I decided instead of slipping in the mud I would just take off my shoes and go barefoot...I got some crazyyy looks and comments but I felt like I was at the spa haha. Then I borrowed some bright blue crocs and used them for the rest of the day. no shame. it was fun!</span></div>
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<span class="s1">I hope all is well down there! The family is officially moved to Utah...adios AZ! But dont worry I will definitely road trip down there to say hi to everyone :) I love and miss you all!! Have a great week!</span></div>
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<span class="s1">hey everyone!! I feel like I havent written in forever..and its true cause I think that its been about 3 weeks. Last week I was reallyyyy sick and the weeks before I just wasnt feelin it. Honestly, I am struggling here a lot. I feel like I have learned all that this area had to teach me and that I am ready for something new. I only have 2 transfers left so I dont know how changes will work out, but we will see. </span></div>
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<span class="s1">I have reallly learned the power of the atonement this transfer. Its really nice to know that we have someone who unserstands us perfectly and that no matter how hard our trials are there's always 2 people the know us and love us and are always there. I am so thankful for prayer that helps calm me down when we are in a not so fun situation. My comp and I have had a few rough patches but things are getting better. </span></div>
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<span class="s1">This week we had interviews with President Bowler and I learned a lot. I love my mission President and his cute wife! Now i only have one interview left then I am back to the states..its crazy how that happens. Im a little baggy but I want to finish my mission strong and happy. I really have enjoyed all of my mission, my 4 areas, my 8 comps and my testimony is bigger than ever so that is great. Ive learned how to get past the road bumps and keep on crusin. </span></div>
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<span class="s1">The craziest thing that happened in these last weeks is that we helped an investigator wash her clothes cause she had a ton...but it started pouring rain!! like I have never seen before. Remember people. we handwash our clothes here and there wasnt a roof to protect us. So we were washing the clothes with rainwater, it was sweet cause we didnt een have to rinse again hahaI think that maybe it was because of this that we got sick haha but our investigator was happy and so were we! </span></div>
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<span class="s1">Also we had the first baptism in our ward since January wooh hoo! His name is George, and hes a hippie and so rad! It was for the other hermanas, but it was still sweet. </span></div>
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<span class="s1">I love you all so much! Thank you for all the support and the prayers, I can feel them! I hope you all have a great week!!</span></div>
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