The sun came out in Chengdu yesterday. You'd think we'd been living in an Alaskan winter for months, because as we walked outside just about everyone looked up, saw the orb of fire in the sky and gasped in amazement.
We don't see the sun much here. It's cloudy, grey, and smoggy all winter.
And then it peaks from the other side of a cloud (er...smog...) and our hearts race a little...it's exciting.
Makes me think of this blog. I feel like I don't share a lot of sunshine on here. Often, I write when I'm down. When the clouds have gotten me. When I'm feeling alone and isolated.
I didn't realize this until after my last post and all of the follow-up hugs I got from friends here. I'm not alone and isolated. I'm surrounded and generally sunny on the inside...so it's time to share a little bit of it with you.
It's been a hard/crazy/long week. Parent-teacher conferences generally drain me and energize me at the same time. My students are awesome, and their parents are even cooler (don't tell the kids I said that...they'll get jealous of their crazy awesome parental units). I've gone to sleep before 6:30 for the past two nights, so it turns out I'm an old lady, but I wake up feeling on cloud nine, which leads to morning craziness.
I feel bad for the people that walked near me on the way to work this morning...I couldn't help but sing and dance along to the playlist that my Amazon Prime Music (best thing ever, btw's) was rocking me out to! If they thought I was a crazy foreigner before, now they know for sure.
Today is going to be crazy-busy, with meetings scattered throughout my day and lots to ponder and think about for next year, but I'm excited. I get to breathe in and out today, high five a few teenagers and almost teenagers, and be a bit of a math geek all day long. (Okay, a huge math geek...don't judge.)
Life is good. The sun is shining. He is risen. What more could we ask for? Happy Thursday, world!
We don't see the sun much here. It's cloudy, grey, and smoggy all winter.
And then it peaks from the other side of a cloud (er...smog...) and our hearts race a little...it's exciting.
Makes me think of this blog. I feel like I don't share a lot of sunshine on here. Often, I write when I'm down. When the clouds have gotten me. When I'm feeling alone and isolated.
I didn't realize this until after my last post and all of the follow-up hugs I got from friends here. I'm not alone and isolated. I'm surrounded and generally sunny on the inside...so it's time to share a little bit of it with you.
It's been a hard/crazy/long week. Parent-teacher conferences generally drain me and energize me at the same time. My students are awesome, and their parents are even cooler (don't tell the kids I said that...they'll get jealous of their crazy awesome parental units). I've gone to sleep before 6:30 for the past two nights, so it turns out I'm an old lady, but I wake up feeling on cloud nine, which leads to morning craziness.
I feel bad for the people that walked near me on the way to work this morning...I couldn't help but sing and dance along to the playlist that my Amazon Prime Music (best thing ever, btw's) was rocking me out to! If they thought I was a crazy foreigner before, now they know for sure.
Today is going to be crazy-busy, with meetings scattered throughout my day and lots to ponder and think about for next year, but I'm excited. I get to breathe in and out today, high five a few teenagers and almost teenagers, and be a bit of a math geek all day long. (Okay, a huge math geek...don't judge.)
Life is good. The sun is shining. He is risen. What more could we ask for? Happy Thursday, world!
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