Every year for the past 24 years I have celebrated my birthday with my family! My mom cooks my favorite meal, family comes over, and we celebrate by fellowship, food, and cake! This year marks a first for me. I wasn’t home, I was in China. No meat loaf, mashed potatoes, and definitely no chocolate cake. It was hard to leave that tradition behind and try to enjoy it here with the new family God has given me. It helped that everyone was so loving and so willing to celebrate any ways I wanted to! I did eat western food, KFC, and I got a foot massage, I had multiple people bring me gifts and we ended the night with fellowship and Pictionary! It was a lot of fun! I was very blessed to be loved on by the people here and the people in Evansville, through the wonderful facebook! One of the main benefits was the fact that my birthday lasted around 36 hours! Haha I did miss my meatloaf and potatoes but I was provided with spicy chicken and French fries and a drumstick to top it off!
Surrounded by sounds of horns, buses, and loud Chinese while walking down a crowded street can seem so foreign and a somewhat out of body experience. As we were walking down a shopping street trying to find our way, to my utter disbelief, I heard Backstreet Boys! Yes, I did stay and listen to the whole song, and it was wonderful! It is funny the things that remind you of home, the thing’s that make your heart smile when you live here. I would never think that hearing “Baby, baby ..ooohhh” by Justin Bieber would be a heart warming experience, but sadly because he speaks English and is totally American, I now have bieber fever! I have really enjoyed hearing some older, not so popular, pop songs and was not expecting to hear what I heard one day shopping for rugs. It was as if the Father was talking directly to me. It was a praise song in English! They had no clue what it was, but to me it was a reminder that He is with me…. anywhere I go! I was praising Him in English in a rug store! ...
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