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Zhengzhou Adventure

Hey Friends! So tired from sprinting to the train A few weeks back 12 of our kids had traveled down to Zhengzhou for camp in Henan Province.  2 days after I had arrived back in China I had the opportunity to travel via train to pick them up and escort them home. It was a big task, but we packed up bags and bags of snacks and headed out early to get our kiddos. Our train to Zhengzhou departed from one of the bullet train stations in Beijing, thus we headed for the city only to get stuck in horrendous traffic. In fear that we'd miss our train due to traffic, we decided to hop on the subway to the train terminal. I usually tend to exaggerate stories a little, but I kid you not, when I say that we were RUNNING through the subway and train station...yes, running, to be more literal we were SPRINTING! Haha As uncomfortable, intense and insane as it was, we made our train to Zhengzhou with 10 minutes to spare! Zhengzhou! Arriving in a new city in China is always exciting for

Catching Up (Cause4Life, Chicago and Home)

Hello Friends, remember me? It's Naomi! I know it's been over a month since my last post, but if I'm being brutally honest, life has been intense and crazy busy. So sorry to keep you all waiting, but alas I'm back and blogging. Here's what's been happening in the last few weeks: The C4L team, plus a few others In early June a lovely group of volunteers came to SFCV with the Joni and Friends Cause4Life internship program (the organization and program through which I first came to SFCV). This group of 7 women were incredibly awesome! Not only did they come to love on our kids, but they also helped me my performing clinical and therapeutic evaluations for some of our therapy kids. I was and am SO blessed by their service and recommendations. It was such a sweet and unique experience to work along side them. Having been a cause4life-er myself it was cool to see the impact they left at SFCV through their simple acts of kindness and service, and to see the