China?! I thought I was going to Africa

Hello everyone! I'm jetting off to Dongguan, China on Sept. 10th to teach English as a second language and this is how I plan on keeping everyone up to date on my glorious adventure.

Yeah, I said China. If you all know me at all I'm sure you're aware that I can't wait to get back to Africa. However, He has clearly provided an amazing opportunity for me (and Rachel!) in China. Here's how it happened...I was taking a Zumba class at the gym (I have a free membership because my boss cut a deal with the gym's boss) because I had written an article about it for the paper and decided to check it out. The teacher of the class was a 27 year old girl named Mikel who was friendly so we chatted after class some. Well, one week I asked her how much longer she was going to teach the class because in the interview the owner of the gym said he may not keep the class going long if people didn't show up. Mikel told me she was going to be leaving in August but her sister was going to replace her. I asked where she was going and she replied, "China." I asked why and she said, "to teach." Now, I had been looking into teaching in South Korea for the two previous weeks so when I heard she was going to China I immediately thought there's no way He is opening this door...right? Well, as it turned out, she was going with nine other Chr-stians, she'd taught in China before, all of the people are around my age, she wants to be a miss-onary and she wants to go to Africa for Christmas break. If that isn't Him orchestrating I don't know what is. So I'm off to China folks!

I will post more as the time for depature draws nearer and will post as frequently as possible while in China. Thanks for reading. I appreciate you taking this adventure with me. I can't wait to see what He has in store :)