ChinaBird

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...

Over the last 6 weeks, I’ve been blessed to have my best friend of 22 years here in China with me.   Kyrra and I go wayyyy back. We first met in the church nursery when we were just two years old and have stayed the best of friends ever since. If you know anything about us and our friendship, then you know that Kyrra and I are COMPLETE opposites.   We have different tastes in food, culture, fashion, music, humor, etc, yet somehow we never let those differences undermine the fundamentals and beauty of our friendship. I can say that Kyrra has been there for me through it all; every high, every low, every momentous occasion and every dumb decision, I’m so blessed to have a dear friend like her. Having her come here to SFCV and China was a dream come true. I finally got to share my passion and love for China with my best friend! So awesome! Already having a love and passion for Asia, Kyrra and I both knew she’d fall in love with the kids, the country and the continent. I th...