Day 52
David met eleven of his students at the
volleyball field today so he could teach them to play American flag football. There are not a lot of grass fields or
playgrounds here in Ji’nan, I don’t know about the rest of China in that
respect, but I haven’t seen a lot of grass areas for kids to just run. He had boys and girls there that wanted to
learn. There would have been a lot more
except there was a vaccination that several of them had to get and there were
some involved in a school tournament basketball game. At first they were more like young elementary
students in catching the ball and when they did catch the ball they wanted to
either pass it again or run from the opposing team that were coming at
them. It didn’t take long to have them
grasp the idea of the game though and soon they were having a pretty good game
and lots of fun. There was a PE teacher
waiting to take over the field after their hour was up so they had to end it,
but as they were leaving the field, the teacher noticed that David had been
using a soft football and she indicated that she thought that was good so the
students wouldn’t get hurt. He came home
all sweaty from the fun he had had.
We worked on school work from then until
about three p.m. and then we headed to RT Mart for groceries and a space
heater. We decided we better have one to
be able to warm up until they turn the heat on in the building sometime in
November. We were pretty loaded down with
groceries and the heater and a new frying pan (the non-stick coating was
starting to come off in the food of the old one that was here in the apartment…
not a good thing!) One of the other BYU
couples had lent us a little cart that we could use to go to the store and back
and haul our groceries back with. I
think of all the couples here in Ji’nan, we are the farthest from a grocery
store and to get to the bus is almost half the way we would have to walk to the
bus stop, so we walked it. I guess we
could have gotten a taxi, but sitting around most of the day doing school work
at a desk meant that we needed some exercise.
We were pretty tired by the time we got back with everything and just as
David picked up the cart to haul it up the stairs one of the wheels fell
off! We were so glad that it had made it
that far. I know God is taking care of
us!
I decided to make zucchini bread for the
potluck dinner tomorrow. So I spent the
evening between that and school work and dishes.
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