As Time Goes By

We have begun our classes and are loving it.  The students are great.  We are even seeing students we had before.  In fact one of Dad’s past students said that I look younger than before.  Made points with me for sure.

 We are making our way around Beijing.  A big overwhelming market is Pan Jia Yuan (the Dirt Market).  It is open only on weekends and has many different and some unusual things.  Here are a few pictures:

And some high-pressure salesmen?

 

Here we are at the entrance:  pre-ordeal….

Fun times about and meaningful times with the students being had.  And, we are excited to have been called to be advisors to the Young Special Interests with the Colemans.  We will be teaching Institute for the next two weeks while they are in Egypt.  It looks like we will have lots of time with young adults–Chinese and otherwise.

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                     NI HAO (HELLO) FROM CHINA 

  

Yes, we are here in Beijing at China Foreign Affairs University with the China Teachers Program administered by BYU.  We are adjusting, happy, and fine-tuning our body clocks. While we miss our dear ones, there are so many rich  adventures and opportunities to serve  here as the institutional face of the Church.  We began classes this week (our schedules are Monday through Thursday).   Here are just a few of our experiences, so far.

All the freshmen go to military training for two weeks.  This is looking out from our balcony. There is a long line of busses and in the middle, straight out. It is very crowded with kids and very noisy.  The building on the right is where we have some of our classes.

 

Our teaching assignments, while full, are nothing like this fellow’s load, we might add:

 

And, as we go forward, because of our 2005-2006 year here and additional training at BYU in  August, we hope to have a smoother time than this fellow with his one no-tread tire.

ZAI JIAN for now.

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