Summer, Gloomy and Elly in Small Kinmen
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Super with AFL students at Three Dogs
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Lucy tries her hand at leather tooling
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4th graders
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more 4th graders
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this is one of those "capture a moment" pictures...
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This is why you should always look behind you before making a left turn....there might be a moped coming up behind you...
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getting ready for a party? That's a lot of 58! (local very, very strong liquor)

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6th graders
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me and Lucy's girl
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Me and Lucy's boy
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Lucy, Meagan and Lucy's girl
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Jack, Me, Barbarian (yes, that's her name) and Sophie. Really cool 9th graders who I taught last semester and are now coming to English Bible study
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If I may say so...this is a really good picture. 5th grade
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Ken
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9th graders, Small Kinmen
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Cooking class
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very smoky
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???!
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902
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very much Meagan
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Pictures from here are on are from Sept...


We got home and Lucas decided to totally tear apart the living room. We threw so much stuff away it isn't even funny.
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Moody...THE dude
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Sea food party at Cal. pizza
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Octopus...
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Riddick, one of the new dorm kids.
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Peggy...this girl is something else
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Anne, George and Monkey
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Dorm people
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The coolest team!
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Don't ask...
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crafts
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Jen
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Peggy
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Riddeck and John
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Lisa and Anne
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Dorm people
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Peggy, the dorm mother and George.
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Ok, I've only got about 20 minutes before I need to head out to Small Kinmen, but I will try to recap my bike crash really quickly...

Basically what happened was we were going to the beach at ?? to swim. I was on the far right side of the road, going down a steep hill. I needed to make make a left turn to go down another road...but I didn't look behind me before turning. At the last moment I saw a moped coming up behind me...I jammed on the brakes, which was actually the wrong thing to do...if I hadn't slowed down everything would have been fine. As it was she hit my back tire, bending it up really good and knocking me over. I actually jumped off the bike before it hit the ground rolled, so I wasn't hurt. The moped driver went flying and slid, hurting her knee. She quickly got up, hobbled over to her moped and drove off though...I'm not even sure who she was: she was wearing a face mask (lots of people over here do when they are driving their mopeds). At any rate, I was fine, but I had to walk my bike about 2 miles back home. And of course everybody stared and laughed...it was interesting.

Today I went up to the high school to watch their sports meet. That was really fun. They also had events yesterday, but I was teaching and wasn't able to go. I hung out mostly with my Small Kinmen kids, but got to visit a bunch of my other students as well. Lin (our friend from church) and his class did a dance routine to Audio Adrenaline's "Mighty Good Leader", which was cool. I asked Lin afterwards if understood the song...he said no. But he was really thrilled to find out it is a Christian song!

Oh my! There's a new Amarican here on the island! And get this: she's living at the dorm and will be teaching at the Jr. high here and in Small Kinmen...MY STUDENTS!!!!!! Dude am I jealous! She seems to be a nice person. But after meeting her, Lucy said she probably won't stay in Kinmen very long...and Lucy is very good at reading people, so I wonder how long she'll be here.

I think it's a good thing that I won't be seeing Sandy (our King Car boss) for a few weeks...if I saw her right now I think I'd slap her in the face. Maybe I'll have time to explain why later.

Oh good heavens! I had something really embarrasing happen to me the other day. I asked one of the dorm kids how to write a phrase in Chinese (??) so I could learn how to write it. So I was at school and since I wasn't teaching, I was writing Chinese. I wrote several lines and then decided that I had the last character down pretty good, but the first character still was hard...so I wrote several lines of just the first character by itself.

Then the bell rings and all my students came to see what I was doing...they started talking very excitedly and pointing to what I had written...I was totally lost until the teacher told me that the first character by itself is the Chinese version of the F word...isn't learning a new laungage fun?