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| From May 2011 |
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I made a concerted effort to purchase some horse manure this week for the garden. Sadly, my garden seems to be lacking in incentive to grow much at all. Being a new experience for me, I thought you just work in the compost, plant some seeds and let them grow. I wasn’t counting on this extra cold spring or the slugs and squirrels that seem to enjoy feasting on my new growth. And every seedling that I bring from the indoors out seems to die- right away. Not so good. So, I’m making a concerted attempt to make this garden grow and spent $20 on about 80lbs of good old fashion horse poo. I have since realized that it is in fact “mushroom manure” which means that it has already been used to grow schrooms, but I hope it will still help the garden. HOPE.
To give an update on our cell phone saga—I almost wish mine was stolen for good now. Ours were both stolen, but mine turned into the Seattle Center with no calls made, and Dave’s was really stolen. PRAISE GOD that was just found out we won’t be charged the $1000’s of dollars of calls to El Salvador (really?!?), and it appears that the trip insurance that I insisted we purchase will cover the cost of Dave’s stolen phone. Hallelujah! Now he’s got a brand new phone with lots of fun toys which works, while I’m still waiting the arrival of my little one. I certainly hope it makes its way here soon! (so, email me if you want to get in touch!)
T-Ball. This is my new job. I’m a T-Ball and other activities coordinator for our community. A friend handed me an application the night before we left for China and told me to fill it out. So I did. And had a job interview while in Shenyang over Skype. And now I have the job. To be more specific, I’ll be coordinating events for kids ages 5-12 here in the family housing on campus. T-Ball is the biggie at the moment. And it’s a full fledged T-ball bonanza too! 4 teams, lots of families out for the events, twice a week complete with a b’bque celebration at the end. We have a movie night tomorrow night and then I can come up with programs for the kids. Hikes, crafts, music, sports--- it’s like I never left my job! ‘
Chinese. I think our trip back to China helped kick start my language ability. I find I naturally break into it here. Today I helped several Chinese grandmothers understand something going on around them and then tonight helped a family figure out where to place their daughter in T-Ball. The mom looked at me after I spoke to her in her native tongue and said “You speak Chinese? Great!” Considering that a very large percentage of the kids and parents I’ll be working with here are from the Mainland, this is coming in handy. I wonder if it’s why I got the job?
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