sleeping through the static

so we're pretty much happy because its warmed up quite a bit here in guzhen.
tomorrow we leave for guangzhou to go to district conference for church. we have meetings saturday and sunday but are leaving tomorrow (friday) so that we can explore a bit because guangzhou supposedly is a pretty neat place. so we're excited about that.

and now its looking like we're actually going to head to xi'an next weekend. we have a four day weekend because of easter (they give it to us off). so we were going to go in may, but found plane tickets like $100 dollars cheaper, so we're pretty stoked about that. it will be chantelle, me and 5 other girls from the kaiyin group. (ps. xi'an is where we'll go see the terra cotta warriors)
alright um.. for other news. we had duck today. which we've had before but never knew what it was. its pretty good, we just have to eat it off the bone.

oh i know i havent done this in a while. cute kid story:
so we have this girl bree (in the picture), who is the tiniest cutest little girl, she looks like a doll. and she's also probably the smartest student in the class. like at least a couple of levels above the other children, like she can form her own sentences and all that good stuff. something a couple of the kids like to do with us before and after class is they'll just point to things and say "teacher?" and we say "thats a book" or "thats a chair" and whatnot. well we have our supply closet in the backroom of a classroom they dont use anymore but the kids wander in there sometimes. and bree will come in a start pointing to things, and sometimes she teaches us the chinese. well callie was walking with her and bree was just pointing to stuff. and there was something that bree was making a mess of and callie says, "bree, thats gross." and bree just nonchalantly goes, "teacher, you is gross." i just started busting up from the backroom because i was just cutting something out. and i'm like oh no bree, i know you did not just do a comeback. it was hillarious. and then she pointed to the garbage can and callie said, "thats garbage." and bree says, "teacher, you is garbage." its so funny because she'll just say it so matter of factly like doesnt even realize what she's saying. its funny. so thats our new thing to say to each other is "you is gross".

other than that we just have another chinese lesson and are just keeping up with these little buggers. we're on the second story and andrew decided to throw a handful of kleenexs out the window. lol. he was embarassed when callie walked down with him to go pick them up. its the little things like that that just make you want to hug them and strangle them at the same time.
but i'm loving it here and alls well. :)