3 Wheels on the Tut Tut Go Clink, Clank, BUMP

As many of you know, it was Thanksgiving a couple of weeks ago.  We were so blessed to be able to have not only one real Thanksgiving meal with American and Chinese friends, but TWO Thanksgiving meals.  Thursday was the actual day of Thanksgiving, on which we ate a feast with the OrderWithMe gang.  Saturday was a Thanksgiving feast with all the Americans in Hangzhou (well, all the Americans connected to the program in some way).  Needless to say, we ate mighty well on those days.  We had almost forgotten how 'American full' feels.  Yuck.  In our classes, we showed A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving and had everyone stand up and tell us one thing they were thankful for.  This school is a bit different from my last school in Wuhan, China, so I wasn't able to take them to the cafeteria and sit around the table for 'Thanksgiving'.  Sad day. 

What else has gone on in the past few weeks?

This past weekend, we got wireless internet in our apartment, thanks to our Chinese friends Coral and David.  David is an IT man, who is the boyfriend of a Chinese girl named Kathryn that comes to studies on Wednesdays and Sundays.  Coral and Kathryn have been the steady Chinese girls to come on Wednesdays and Sundays.  They are not believers, but they are interested and have become some of our good Chinese friends here. 

So, back on track - we now have wireless internet at the apartment!  We can now both get on the internet, and we can now connect to the VPN in our apartment. 

After Coral and David helped us, we then proceeded to go to Coral's apartment to make dinner.  Davis left with David on a 3-wheel (tut tut) to get the groceries, and I left with Coral on a 3-wheel to her apartment.  She lives about 5 minutes from us.  To give you an idea, and although you haggle the price, it cost us 8 RMB to travel 5 minutes to her apartment.  That is roughly a dollar and a half, US currency.  When Davis and David returned to Coral's apartment with groceries, we began making...  dumplings!  I should have taken pictures, but I did not. :(  The dough that's used to put the filling in and is folded over, is already pre-cut into circles, so it was super easy to make them.  Davis and I just helped with the filling and folding part.  David did the chopping of the chicken meat, beef, and pork.  He also did the frying and boiling of the dumplings.  They. Were. Delicious!!!

The following morning was Sunday morning.  We were so blessed to have Ronald and his wife and daughter come join us.  Please pray that they continue to come meet with us.  He works at our school, and he is a believer.  He says he has been studying for 8 years, and became a believer 6 years ago.  He is a part of the three self church in Hangzhou.  This is the government sanctioned church in China. 

Yep.  That's about it.  Again, we appreciate all of the prayers and thoughts!