Thursday, January 12, 2012

Yes it's been a long time!

I am soooo sorry it's been so long since my last post. My friends (Mainly Becca Carpenter) were making fun of me because it's been so long. But don't worry, I am alive and well.

If you have an iphone you have to download the "instagram" app and follow me. My user name is "taytaybartlett". It's just a fun way to take pics with your phone.

Any-who, let me give you some highlights from the last few months!

Chinese class was great this semester. I learned a ton! I always want to study the language more but I just don't have the time.

Teaching has also been good. But doing both was definitely getting tiring towards the end of the semester

Thanksgiving was great. We went to a family's house with about 150 other people. We ate turkey and all the thanksgiving classics and then we played good ole' american football.

(A month later...)Christmas was busy but great. We had a performance at the school (We all sang a Chinese Song!) and then we went to Mr. Mai's to celebrate with some of our chinese friends. The next day we went over to our friends house to open gifts and hang out.

We finished school the last week of December and the school is giving us a 5-6 weeks paid vacation! I love it. I am pretty exhausted from the semester so I didn't really want to travel anywhere. I just wanted to hand out with some of my Chinese friends that I haven't seen for awhile and relax.

I just had a birthday too. We had a great time. My friends took me out to a steak dinner and then we saw the movie "The Flowers of War" Christian Bale is in the movie about the Japanese occupation in Nanking during WWII. It's great. You have to see it. I think it is in the theaters in the States. So go see it!

Also, as a little birthday gift to myself, I bought an electric guitar! haha Random, I know but I am excited!

Enjoy the pictures! There are explanations on my facebook page here http://www.facebook.com/taybartlett/photos

And the video of our Christmas performance is here
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z__bF1ZB90c

4 comments:

Carpenters said...

Hooray!!! You wrote a new post! Thanks, Man. This means a lot to me!! Hehe. Hey, enjoy your break and that new guitar! ~Becca

Adam & Becca Carpenter said...

Thanks for the update bro. We're in the US now at Becca's parents house in Wenatchee, WA. I can actually get online to Facebook and blogs.

Good ol' China firewall.

Enjoy your down time. Hope it's good for growth and time spent with Chinese friends. Wish we had that same chance. Life is getting busy in Wuhan.

Love ya man, Adam

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