when it rains it pours.

so today it rained.
like poured.
and poured
and kept raining.
pretty much got soaked on the way to and from school. but it was okay. the only thing that was really sad was i remembered i brought rain boots AFTER i was already at school in the afternoon... sad face..
but the streets here are really bad so there was puddle after puddle that just screamed "JUMP IN ME!!" it was so hard to resist the temptation.

the kids were a lot better today compared to yesterday
. yesterday was just plain awful. i swear all of them had the devil in them and there was no way to get it out of them. so today was a lot better.. plus its friday so you know today is automatically better.

so now its winter break until the end of next week but then spring festival begins (chinese new year) which lasts another 2 weeks. (chinese kids dont know how lucky they are). and so us teachers have from the 1st to 15th off. SWEET. so we were planning on making this our adventure up to beijing. only one thing, this is like the worst traveling season because EVERYONE is trying to get up north. yea so yesterday was a big headache trying to figure everything out. and now we're not going to beijing until april. so now we leave the second of february to first go to Sanya, Hainan (Sawn-ya, High-Non). Which is pretty much china hawaii, except way better. Its like a resort vacation area with ridiculously nice beaches and best thing ITS HOT THERE!! like lows of 75 and highs in the high 80's!! so we'll stay there for 5 days. things to do in Sanya include beaches, scuba diving and MONKEY ISLAND and more. so we're way psyched.
next we're going to go to Guilin (Gway-leen). This is a high tourist province in China. This is where a bunch of pretty china landscape is found. like we'll take river tours and go exploring mud caves and the such.
so its not our originally planned beijing trip but it should be pretty legit.
and you know i'll have TONS of pictures. so dont you fret :)

ps. if any of you have any questions or just want to contact me one on one my email is tay07009@byui.edu. PLEASE FEEL FREE TO CONTACT ME ANYTIME and about anything!! seriously. i'd love hearing from you :) :)

pps. so its pretty much freezing out here and our apartments doesn't have working heat so our apartment actually gets colder than outside. we wear multiple layers at night (sometimes up to 5) so i went to the store and bought some rice and filled one of my socks with it. and you just heat it in the microwave for a couple of minutes and now you've got your own personal warmer. and so to not get cold at night i snuggle up to it and we joked that it was kind of like a stuffed animal.
well... i got bored.. and chantelle and me joked about drawing eyes on our socks...

so. meet phillip :)