Verse for the week: Ephesians 1:9 "Having made known unto us the mystery of his will, according to his good pleasure which he hath purposed in himself:"
There's no mystery about God's will for this year of my life...he has shown me the hope of his high calling and now my prayer is that the work he has purposed me to do will all be to the praise of the glory of his grace.
After being picked up at the Taipei airport, I got an hours worth of car ride to examine my new home. This week we are staying at a college campus in Hsinchu. We will go to Taipei for next weekend and then to the opposite side of Taipei for the second week of camp. After orientation, Joanna, Kara and I will make our way to Ping Tung, where we will be for the rest of the year. The children for next week's camp arrive tomorrow. All of us here at the campus had a free evening tonight, so the Taiwanese teachers took us out to dinner. Joanna and I shared beef fried rice, and considering we are not native chopstickians, there was quite a deal of rice that was neither on the plate or in our mouths. Near the end of the meal, I tried to come up with a unobvious way to dispose of the scattered rice grains. We decided, that since we had no napkins (apparently they don't use napkins in Taiwan) the best way to deal with the rice would be to inconspicuously gather it and drop it under the table. It might have worked if there had not been so many of us gathered around the table. As I felt the rice slip out of my fingers, I noticed a strange look creep over Joanna's face. Since we were in such close proximity, the rice had dropped on her flip-flopped feet instead of the floor where I had originally intended for it to land. Being the only two Americans at the table (and not desiring our ineptitude with chopsticks to become obvious, we smuggled ourselves out of the restaurant with a couple of the teachers, and came home to watch a movie as we wait for the arrival of our dear Kara, who should be coming into Taipei any moment now.
2 comments:
Next time you eat rice, ask for a rice bowl. Pick up the rice bowl with your left hand and hold it to your mouth and start shovelling rice into your mouth with your chopsticks that are in your right hand. Don't laugh or inhale while you are doing this...it could be dangerous to your health. Chopstick lesson, at the top of a pair of chopsticks wedge a small folded wad of paper between the two sticks, then tie the sticks and folded paper together with a rubber band. This should form a tong like instrument to help you gain control of the sticks. Practice picking up stuff like gumdrops with your chopsticks. When you are better remove the rubber band and paper. If all else fails ask for help, don't be embarrass.
Love,
Aunt Fong
Thanks Aunt Fong :) Actually, I'm not sure if it's talent or me being pathetic at chopsticks, but I can often get one grain of rice at a time :D.
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