Hello! Greatings from the middle of nowhere! Yes! I am back on my little back water island that nobody has ever heard of! Wow-who! I am a happy camper!

Getting here wasn't all that fun. From the time I went to the airport in Tulsa to the time I landed in Kinmen was 34 hours...bleh! Not fun!

First thing I did once we got home was run over to the classrooms and see my students. All my 8th graders (9th graders now) said that 9th grade is very ?? (bad). Poor kids. All of the new sixth graders are so small! It really shocked me!

Wednesday I went to the high school dorm and visited with my ??? (small Kinmen) kids. It was so awesome to see them again! Sunday I am going to be meeting with Selena to get things figured out for my new high school conversation class...a lot of those kids will be from Small Kinmen.

Today we are going to the beach. A typhoon is headed this way, so the waves should be big...Ginger is going to borrow some boogie boards and possible even Chris's surf board...so that should be really fun. Tomorrow Andrew and I are going on a bike rie to explore the south-western end of the island. I don't think I've ever been down in the area before, so that should be fun.

Ok, a coupel things that happened back in the states....I got my brown belt! Wow! I went to three or four classes a week while I was home and Mr Murry let me test! It went very well. I got real good scores on my sweeps and pretty good scores on my jump kicks. Fighting for 10 minutes wasn't too bad (I'd been running about 30), but I just about died in plural fights. During my 3 on 1 fight I fell down and somebody put his heal right in my calf muscle, frogging it really bad. Then in my 4 on 1 I frogged the other calf...ouch! Other than that it all went really well. The next morning I could barely move and had a really good looking black eye, but I was a brown belt! Then on the following Saturday I went to a tournament, which I was more than a little bit nervous about, since I would be in brown belt devision. But I took third place in kata (more on that later...) and second place in sparring! So that was cool!

Ok, I need to go get breakfast now. Talk to y'all later!