Today I (Jamye) had an appointment with a friend. She and her family are from Brazil. Just last week a young lady arrived who is here to help them by homeschooling their two daughters. The Mom and I had talked homeschooling before and knowing that the teacher that has just arrived was rather nervous about it all we decided it would be good to meet and discuss things.
These are the kinds of meetings I really look forward to. Two things I am very passionate about (among many, I want to do EVERYthing) are homeschooling and helping people successfully transition into a new culture and lifestyle. We had a very good meeting and I think she is feeling better about beginning next week. But we also plan to meet every week or two to see how things are going for her. I got back home in time for a late lunch. Since Mark was going to be home in the afternoon but gone in the evening we stole a couple of hours for some family time.
Originally I had a Coaching appointment scheduled for today but my client had to postpone til next week. This wasn't really a bad thing because I have been working on an editing project for a friend and I spent the rest of the afternoon finishing that up so I could get it emailed to him the same day since he is hoping to publish soon. Took some time of focused concentration but I got it done and felt I had done well.
Mark left for a goodbye/teacher's appreciation dinner for a student he has been preparing to study in the States. Her Dad has several businesses and seems to really love to bless others in his prosperity. One of the things he shared with Mark was his desire to open some good nursing homes for elderly people in China. He seems to have a really compassionate heart towards them. He is also hoping Mark will teach him some music since he loves music and heard that Mark was gifted with this.
After dinner I worked on my Chinese homework for tomorrow's class, got most of it done :)
Since I had no time to walk or run today I did the free step on Wii Fit Plus for an hour and a half while watching Star Trek.
An odd thing that has been happening the last few days is that our door bell is being rung constantly. The way most all complexes are around here work is that you punch in the number of the apartment you want to go to and they ring you in. Well, someone, we have no idea who, has been calling to ring in. We let them in a couple of times thinking they were coming to see us but they never did. This went on for about 3 days. Mark started asking them who they were but they were giving unclear answers. So we stopped letting them in. If they live here they should have a key, if they are visiting they should be ringing the folks they have come to see. Not sure what is up with this, but just last night they tried to ring in at least a half a dozen times. Hopefully this will stop soon.Pray for London.
Peace!
