If there is one thing I have learned from the precious little children that I teach, it would be this.
You don't know how to love until you have felt the love of a child.
I obviously don't have my own children, but being with these children every day has given me the opportunity to give and receive SO MUCH LOVE. It reminds me of the love that I feel for my cute little niece and my nephews. A love that I'm sure could only be outdone by your own children. There is just something about being loved by a child that is so special. It's given me just a tiny glimpse at what it might be like for Heavenly Father to love all of us.
Today for arts and crafts, I helped the kids learn how to write their names in English letters. After they wrote them, I got glue and traced over their names with it and then let them choose glitter to shake over it. As I helped each individual child, I just felt so much joy. I wanted to help them make their names as perfect as possible. I wanted them all to know how cool they are. I wanted to give all of them the individual love they deserve. Even though they were running around, smearing each others names, complaining about it, getting glitter EVERYWHERE, and talking 5 cm's away from my face, I just felt nothing but love.
Vivian, my favorite child(I give up on the no favorites rule), stood behind me during store today and just put her head on my shoulder and hugged me. Occasionally she would just tenderly pat my shoulder. "Teacha Kangaly..."(I give up on trying to teach them how to say Kambrie too.) It was seriously just the best. She shows me the kind of love that is just so pure and innocent.
Yesterday while teaching, Norah ran up to me and put her mouth to my ear to "tell me a secret".
"14 tokens!", she said with a huge smile on her face. I started laughing so hard while she just skipped back to her chair as if she just told me her biggest secret in the world.
Oscar noticed that I thought it was funny, so he ran up and whispered, "1,2,3,4," and then ran back to his seat laughing his head off, which ultimately made me laugh my head off! Then Jessica caught on and ran up and whispered, "Rule #7 tokens in your token bag,", followed by kaycee, and aubrie, and eric, and vivian, who all just thought of the first english words they could think of and whispered them into my ears. They were laughing so hard!! Then, John runs up and instead of speaking any english he just said something along the lines of, "balgahblefara,". That one took it over the top for me and I started laughing so hard that tears were coming out of my eyes. My laugh got really high and squeaky and the kids just looked at me with the most concerned faces. I'm sure they were wondering why Teacher Kangary was sad, and why her face turned so red. hahahaha. But once they realized I was laughing, they all burst out into the biggest bunch of goofballs and started laughing with me. Overall it was just a big laugh fest. The best laugh fest I've ever been a part of.
If any of you reading this are wondering if you should volunteer for ILP or not, I would encourage you to give in. Just give in and come. You will not regret it. I just wish I could make you understand that.
To learn about it, visit the ILP website by clicking her here. Do it, do it, do it. Give in to my peer pressure.
Anyway, have a happy day, or night, or morning, or whatever it is in your part of the world.
-Kambrie
I'm still so annoyed that I can't post pictures on here. If you want to see pictures, you can try to find me on facebook and look at some maybe! Good luck!
Wednesday, November 7, 2012
Friday, November 2, 2012
There's so much to be thankful for.
As we all know, it is now November and November means Thanksgiving.
Being here in china has sort of given me a new perspective on life. There are little things that I have, or don't have here, that have made me realize how blessed I am. So, because it is always good to put a voice to gratitude, I'm joining the crowd and I will post one new thing I am grateful for, everyday until Thanksgiving! Here we go!
Nov 1st: Today I am grateful for my parents. For their never ending goodness and their constant outpouring of love and support! Even when I'm so far away from home, I can still feel their love! I love them more than words can express!
Nov 2nd: I am grateful for the fact that food is so cheap in China. Bought a whole grocery list of food for only 8 American dollars...BOO YA!
NOW EVERYONE PRETEND TO BE SUPER INSPIRED BY ME AND GO OUT AND BE GRATEFUL! YAY!
(maybe the all caps was a bit much...)
-kambrie
Being here in china has sort of given me a new perspective on life. There are little things that I have, or don't have here, that have made me realize how blessed I am. So, because it is always good to put a voice to gratitude, I'm joining the crowd and I will post one new thing I am grateful for, everyday until Thanksgiving! Here we go!
Nov 1st: Today I am grateful for my parents. For their never ending goodness and their constant outpouring of love and support! Even when I'm so far away from home, I can still feel their love! I love them more than words can express!
Nov 2nd: I am grateful for the fact that food is so cheap in China. Bought a whole grocery list of food for only 8 American dollars...BOO YA!
NOW EVERYONE PRETEND TO BE SUPER INSPIRED BY ME AND GO OUT AND BE GRATEFUL! YAY!
(maybe the all caps was a bit much...)
-kambrie
Thursday, November 1, 2012
Chinese Peruvians?
Heavenly Father does answer prayers. How do I know this? Let me explain.
I absolutely love China, don't get me wrong. But I really can't handle the whole "let's eat rice for breakfast, lunch, and dinner!" concept. In fact I hate it. I used to love rice and now I gag at the thought of it. Unfortunately that is kind of my only option to eat here at our school. Rice, weird veggies, and cold nasty meat that should be illegal. I always get food to show respect to the chef, but I always end up throwing most of it away. It's either throw it away, or eat it and accidentally throw it up...
Needless to say, I have been pretty hungry lately. And this is where the answering prayers parts come in.
One day Andrea, Maddie, and I were walking around Da Fu Yen (the big shopping center here) and we saw some people that weren't Asian. Any time you see other foreigners it's just super exciting. The girl in the group saw us too and came over to talk to us. She told us she was from Peru and then introduced us to her other family memebers. Her older brother, Daniel, is quite the character. His sense of humor is very similar to my uncles sense of humor so it was kind of refreshing to joke around with him! Anyway they ended up inviting us over for dinner so that we could celebrate Halloween! But it wasn't just any dinner.
We got to their apartment and it smelled amazing! He had two marinated chickens roasting in a roaster! They made potatoes, and the most incredible sauce to put on them. We asked him what was in the sauce and it's some sort of cream, cilantro, crackers, and some other stuff. It was DIVINE! Then he made a salad. And I don't know if you know how exciting that was. We haven't had fresh lettuce since we left the U.S. The Chinese people always steam it. So we were so excited! It had lettuce, cucumbers, tomatoes, onions, and avocados with this yummy lime mixture that he spread all over it. It's not dressing, just lime juice or something. It was SO good. The mother made some fresh papaya juice, which was also amazing. And then to top it off the sister (Mayo is her name), made dessert called Delica de Lemon. At least i think that's what it was called. It was heaven.
We stayed there for a long time and just talked to them. I think I might know more Spanish by the time I come home than I do Chinese.. haha! But I left feeling so happy, grateful, and full! Bless their Peruvian hearts!
-Kambrie
I absolutely love China, don't get me wrong. But I really can't handle the whole "let's eat rice for breakfast, lunch, and dinner!" concept. In fact I hate it. I used to love rice and now I gag at the thought of it. Unfortunately that is kind of my only option to eat here at our school. Rice, weird veggies, and cold nasty meat that should be illegal. I always get food to show respect to the chef, but I always end up throwing most of it away. It's either throw it away, or eat it and accidentally throw it up...
Needless to say, I have been pretty hungry lately. And this is where the answering prayers parts come in.
One day Andrea, Maddie, and I were walking around Da Fu Yen (the big shopping center here) and we saw some people that weren't Asian. Any time you see other foreigners it's just super exciting. The girl in the group saw us too and came over to talk to us. She told us she was from Peru and then introduced us to her other family memebers. Her older brother, Daniel, is quite the character. His sense of humor is very similar to my uncles sense of humor so it was kind of refreshing to joke around with him! Anyway they ended up inviting us over for dinner so that we could celebrate Halloween! But it wasn't just any dinner.
We got to their apartment and it smelled amazing! He had two marinated chickens roasting in a roaster! They made potatoes, and the most incredible sauce to put on them. We asked him what was in the sauce and it's some sort of cream, cilantro, crackers, and some other stuff. It was DIVINE! Then he made a salad. And I don't know if you know how exciting that was. We haven't had fresh lettuce since we left the U.S. The Chinese people always steam it. So we were so excited! It had lettuce, cucumbers, tomatoes, onions, and avocados with this yummy lime mixture that he spread all over it. It's not dressing, just lime juice or something. It was SO good. The mother made some fresh papaya juice, which was also amazing. And then to top it off the sister (Mayo is her name), made dessert called Delica de Lemon. At least i think that's what it was called. It was heaven.
We stayed there for a long time and just talked to them. I think I might know more Spanish by the time I come home than I do Chinese.. haha! But I left feeling so happy, grateful, and full! Bless their Peruvian hearts!
-Kambrie
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