I WILL choose to say

Lord, blessed be Your name

Currently Listening He Reigns: The Worship Collection By Newsboys see related

6th Cup Free- Thwarted

Currently Reading Teaching the Chinese Learner: Psychological and Pedagogical Perspectives see related

Last Thursday one of my Chinese colleagues gave blood on campus. It was her first time. The next thing she knew she woke up Friday morning in a hospital. Apparently the Blood bank had taken 20% of her blood and she fainted and almost died. I was amazed... normally the blood bank are so good. It was really scary for her because she didn't remember anything (well she fainted) and so didn't know why she was there. That was scary!

   On a happy note the Lady's mother is over visitng for a couple of weeks which is great. I don't know Grace that well so it is good to get to know her a little better. The funniest thing is the Lady as she is so excited... she dos these little happy dances all the time

   I can't remember what else I was going to say... just finished giving six hous straight of class... completely exhausted.

Tiredness

    Somedays I just find it so hard to get going... do you ever find that... you still work but it is just like your brain is stuck in first gear. Today has been one of those days... yesterday too... I was 2 and a quarter hours in on a three hour lecture and I had different tasks the students were doing they were posting group work on a discussion board and I teach from a power point presentation. Anyway I swapped back to the powerpoint show and skipped about 5 slides and went on discussing new words from the lesson ahead. It totally messed up was a really good progression. It ended up being a bad last half hour

    Today has been better... but have still felt tired. I had seven assignments (short descriptive passages) to mark before students came this afternoon and well for three of the students I hadn't finished marking theirs when they arrived... so had to do it while they were here... I really prefer to be able to read them 2-3 times after the initial mark is given and reflect more on it... oh well. They still seemed happy enough with their marks.

   Yes, when I start talking about work... don't you feel like sleeping as well okie... better get back to it... 20 more minutes of student consultation and then I get to go home... well actually Dinner with the Lady and another couple who are friends of ours. 

The Update

Newly awoken, I extend my virtual arms and stretch as my interned mouth opens wide in an unspoken yawn...

Time and change... Times flows by and it occurs to me that change within is not dependent on time but rather on cause and effect. Time passes and we are affected not predominatly by time but rather by the context and interaction of our life and our response to it.

Everything has changed and nothing... and as with all newly awakened adjustment takes time... time to comprehend, to understand.

Choices we have made to move forward into the unknown... at least the unknown for us. The first step Beijing August 2006 is one well known and understood we have both been there before and it is not new, yet excitement beckons; for it is a step forward and with that step comes movement. Movement that is bringing us closer to our heart's goal of Kazakhstan.

So the last year... Married... the tale of nine years ends by beginning the story of a lifetime. The Lady became my princess and joy ! ...Growth... I am older now as experience makes us and the memories of darkness, once jagged and red raw, now simply that... memories. Jesus life a light, that fills my night with the breaking of new dawn, His grace anew follows review of things no longer before, restored.

So many things to do... demand attention... focus... thought... time... energy... limited... needy... Jesus... life... rest... love... joy... peace... Paget....