Who Knew I Was A Morning Person

We went on an adventure to the city part of our city. We got on a bus and it took about 30 minutes to get to an area by Tianyi Square. The city is huge! It was fun walking around. We went to the outskirts of the city to an area where there were some shops set up for the lantern festival. We met some people who speak English and are about our age and one named Eric is going to be showing us around sometime. But while we were just walking and looking around everyone stared at us of course and they would kind of secretly take pictures of us. It wasn't until this lady came over with her grandkid and started talking to us and her son was taking pictures of us with his kid and suddenly everyone was talking pictures of us. We were surrounded by a crowd who were taking pictures and trying to get their kids to be in the picture with us. It was fun and crazy. We left there and went to Tianyi Square. Its a huge shopping center and we had KFC. It was interesting, but really good. They pulled out a menu and we just pointed and told them how many and sometimes they asked questions but it was pretty easy to answer cause they were pointing and using hand gestures too.

I'm getting use to being around people who can't understand me and I'm afraid that I will come back and start making comments out loud forgetting that people back home can understand me.

It's an adventure! I think everyone should come to China at some point in their life.

Yesterday we had church at 10:00am. It was in our apartment. We had 4 other people besides the 11 of us. Two live her in Ningbo as teachers. One is a private teacher and the other is a teacher at the school. One is here for business from England and the last one is a non member from Slovakia who teaches here at our school and is investigating the church. It's nice that we get to take the sacrament. We are just chilling out in the apartment. My roommate Sarah is taking a nap. I never thought I would be a morning person but the past two days I've been up at 6 or 6:30 and I go to bed around 9.

I think that the more I stay here and visit with everyone the more I will like it and enjoy being here. I really love the people so far and I know I will love them even more as I get to know them. I am excited to meet the kids. We start teaching Wednesday.

I've put pictures up on Instagram. Pictures here coming soon.