ChinaBird

Still crazy as ever... :) What. Is. Up?  I know, I know, back so soon! I wanted to update y'all on my recent trip to New Jersey! Since living in China and working at SFCV I've had the opportunity to meet and connect with so many awesome people: families, interns, guests, and co-workers. As time moves on, eventually so do people. It's one of the hard things to grasp about working for a non-profit in a foreign country, but it's always a good thing too. God is constantly bringing new people and moving others home and on to other amazing things. In my time at SFCV thus far, I've seen some good friends move home to the U.S and new ones come; it's pretty much the circle of volunteer life. Hard at times, but overall good. Dinner with some China Dawgs!   A few friends and former SFCV co-workers of mine happen to live and (now) work on the East Coast in the Philadelphia, New Jersey, Maryland area. This last week I had the wonderful opportunity to drop-in and...

Howdy from Seoul! Greetings Y'all! On our way...Seoul here we come! I gotta tell you about last month's visa trip to Seoul, South Korea! If you follow the blog, then I'm sure by now you've got the general idea of visa trips. Every 60 days, wether I want to or not, I have to leave mainland China. There is no specific place that I have to go nor do I have to be gone a specific amount of time, all I have to do is get my passport stamped. At the end of October, there were several staff members here at SFCV, including myself, that needed to make a visa trip. Since we all had to be out of mainland China around the same time, we figured we should all just go together....and we did just that! There were 6 of us that made the trip to Seoul: Josh, Esther (Josh's sister), Caroline, Kyrra, Me and of course ILY Bear! yes, just....YES! cue the "Hallelujah Chorus" :D  We set out late on a Thursday morning, got to the airport and on our plan with no gli...