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The weekend has arrived, but rest and relaxation has not come with it! Yesterday some of the students came over and we cooked them a Mexican themed meal. All in all I think it went over really good. They liked it better than Thursday night's group liked Spaghetti. After supper we played Uno and then Catch Phrase, which by the way is a really fun game to play with ESL speakers. When they left we had a HUGE mess to clean up. Not only did I make a mess cooking, and then we had all the plates and cups to clean, but because we played Uno with the students Noah and Nate entertained themselves. And they don't know how NOT to make a mess. So the living room was extrememly messy. But we were too exhausted and had to be up early the next morning so we straightened up the living room a little and then just shut the door to the kitchen and prentended it wasn't there.

Jenni and I are leading worship at BICF this weekend, so that means we had practice today which took place from 8:30 - 11:00. Right now Jenni has a couple of students over practicing for their IELTS test. I should be studying but I'm being lazy - which I am justifying by telling myself I am keeping you guys updated on our life in Beijing. Tomorrow we have to be at BICF for set-up by 8:30 a.m. I know that probably doesn't seem early to you, but we are used to going to the 11:30 a.m. service. We are leading in both services so we will be at church from 8:30 a.m. to 1:15 p.m. After the service I think we are going to lunch with a couple from Texas. We should have time to eat, and chat a little, but then we have to rush home because we have some other students coming over to the house mid-afternoon. Sometime between now and Monday I have to find time to write a 作文 (Chinese essay). But it only has to be only 500 characters, so it won't be that bad. My teacher gave us lots of homework this weekend, but I was able to get most of it done Friday, which means NO I didn't get to go for that run. I also have a 听写 (writing test) for my 综合 (zong he) class that I need to study for. Lately I have been getting up at 5:30 a.m, yeah I know I'm officially old now, so I plan on studying for my test then.

On the up side, while we were at practice the Chen's, from downstairs, watched the boys for us. After practice Jenni and I took a little time out of our day to go to 日坛公园 - Ritan Park. We carried our baseball gloves with us and played some catch. Every time a Chinese person walked by they all stopped and watched for a couple of minutes, it was probably the first time they ever saw a baseball. I don't if it is still America's favorite passtime, but it is definately not China's! Which makes me wonder who actually goes to watch the Beijing Tigers play. The coming week doesn't seem to be any slower than our weekend, but after that we have a week long break! We'll I'm off to go eat Korean with some students, so until next time.

坚持着，

托吗斯