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!
I have been contemplating what to write on my blog lately. I am going through a time in the culture shock/stress phase that is hard to put into words. However, just the other day as I sat on the floor starring out the window the words came. Heart Broken. That kind of heart- ache that consumes your body, leaves you somewhat depressed and the pain is so real it feels physical. I feel like I just had a bad break-up. I was told Nov/Dec are going to be hard months, but I got through November and then …heart break. I am not sure why. But I have my guesses. The adventure of moving here and starting life here is over. I am officially here. I am living life in China. With that being said; now I am realizing that life in China isn’t easy all the time, I miss home and life there, and that living life here is going to be more of a sacrifice than I originally thought. Its not temporary. This is a hard realization. I think for the past 5 months I have been in survival mode. Knowing if I just pushe...
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