Long time, no see....

Last weekend a good friend of ours from Eau Claire, who just moved to Wuhan came and visited Kara and I. It was really fun to see her. We talked about the EC and our friends there, good reminiscing. Right now I'm listening to a Peer Validated podcast off the Volumeone website. Jon Sunde is guesting on the show so its fun to hear the voices of friends.

I've been in a place where I've felt really guilty about this blog. I haven't posted on anything in a really long time and since I last posted we've done a lot of cool things, but since I haven't written about any of those things I've felt like I can't write anything about our everyday life until I write about those things. Basically I'm saying this blog has been really boring for the past three or four months. Sorry.

So here's what's happened that we haven't written about:

April
We found an apartment. We looked at a bunch of different ones. Some were really bad, some were too expensive, but we're happy with the one we got. Two bedrooms, one of which is my studio/guest room.

May
Wrapped up ReGen for the year. Started planning for the next school year. Did a bunch of graduation stuff.

June
We said good-bye to most of the people that we had met so far. 75% of our youth volunteers left in July and June, so we are sort of starting from scratch now. Which is good and bad. Oh well. We started a summer Bible study with the few kids that were still in town for the summer. Small groups are cool. It was good to get to know some of the kids better in a smaller group setting.

July
Summer flew by all month. It was crazy. I felt like I would have a lot of time this sumer to get caught up and plan for the new year, but it turns out that there is still stuff to do during the summer. We did a lot of fun things with the youth group this summer: waterpark, frisbee in the park day, ice skating, bowling, etc.

August
Eclipse trip: we went out to the midwest (China) and to see a full solar eclipse. Honestly a solar eclipse is like nothing I've ever experienced before. The rest of the trip was "ma ma hu hu" (translation: alright but not great), but it was worth it. Kara worked on a nice full post about the trip, but then we lost it.

Olympics: Beijing was lots of fun during the the Ao yun hui (oww yun hway). There were actually a lot fewer vistitors than anyone was think there would be. It was weird because most areas of Beijing were quieter and less hectic. They took half the cars of the road and opened up two new subway lines.
We went and saw Beach Volleyball, we saw the US women win a match and the Chinese men win a match as well. The crowd was always awesome whenever China competed in anything anywhere.
We went to Athletics (twice) at the Bird's Nest. Highlights were seeing a Russian girl set the world record in pole vault, and seeing the USA team sweep the 400 meter dash.
I went to a women's soccer match and Kara went to see flatwater kyaking.

September
ReGen and Element (the new name for our Middle school ministry) started on September 5th. So we're in full swing now. We're still building our volunteer team, so we're a little short handed. It makes things busy for me.
Kara started her new job as a homeschool teacher for a family out in the Beijing suburbs. It's kind of a pain to get out there in the morning, but she likes the job.

Paralympics: When Rachel (Eau Claire friend) was here last weekend we went and saw a Murderball (wheelchair rugby) match, which was awesome. We also got to go to back to the Bird's Nest and see some wheelchair races there.

So there it is, now we're up to date. Now I can write about whatever I want. So what I want to write about is Fantasy Football:

I've decided it's a lot hard to do well in Fantasy Football if you never get see any of the teams play. I sometimes get to follow games via the internet on Sunday mornings, but they don't usually broadcast them here. Currently I'm in 9th place (out of 10) in my league, and I don't really like my team.