Day 58 - Tears and Happiness
David and I got up extra early and got
ready to do a Google Hangout at Alisa and CJ’s wedding dinner. There were some technical problems to
overcome, as there always seems to be with computers, but especially when you
are getting five different computers going at the same time. It’s pretty fantastic to think about having
three different locations (the reception at the North Hampton House in American
Fork, Caleb, Bethany and Aleeyah in South Carolina and David and I in China). Eventually most of the bugs were worked out
and we were able to be a part of the festivities surrounding Alisa’s wedding in
a small way. Not that I didn’t shed
tears about not being there, but it was a small compensation.
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| Alisa and CJ |
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| Bridesmaids and groomsmen. |
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| Alisa, just beautiful. |
Alisa looked beautiful in her dress. I wish that I could have heard Rachel’s song
better. It didn’t come through on the
feed. David and I gave a little advice. I guess I should have found one of her cute
antics from her childhood to tell, but I didn’t.
We would have loved to stay with them longer and enjoy more, but we had
to get breakfast and get to class.
Classes went well. I had a girl approach me at the end of my
first class and she wants me to help her improve her speaking skills so she can
pass the GRE and TSOL tests. She wants go to American and get her
Masters. I told her to come to my
apartment at 1 p.m. and we could talk. I
was a little late for my next class, but it sounds like they are getting used
to me having a hard time getting from the one building to the other in the 20
minutes that there is between classes.
It would help if I didn’t have to climb four flights of stairs
though.
David and I had planned to go to the top-floor
teacher canteen for lunch and see if the food was any better there, but we both
got home late from classes and since we didn’t have any bread here for
sandwiches, we decided to go to Yon Ho for some take out and eat back here at
the apartment so that I could meet with the girl that had approached me between
classes, Ann. She was here waiting for
me and we talked for over an hour and a half before we could eat our lunch when
she left. She reads English well and
thinks that she hears it well, but she doesn’t comprehend what she is
reading. It is just words. Now to figure out how best to help her...
David had a game time with some of his
students this afternoon. The two boys,
Ethan and Benny, that helped us get the computer chairs and TV stand were going
to come over this evening, but that didn’t happen, so we decided to go for a
walk and get ice cream to “drown our sorrows” about not being able to be at
Alisa’s wedding. Maybe we were just
celebrating…
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