I'll be in China within a week. I got my plane ticket, my visa, my guitar, some books, clothes, what more do I need?

I want to get some gifts for people. I think it would be good to give little things to my coworkers. And the poor people who pick me up from the airport at midnight. I feel really bad that I couldn't get a better flight.

Does anyone have any suggestions on gifts I could pick up? Preferably nothing to expensive.

Oh, and before I can get to China I have to at least stay alive. I almost got t-boned at a stop sign yesterday. Then I saw someone in a white car go nuts on the highway. They started swerving across all four lanes, then fishtailed like mad (I actually thought they were going to flip) while their trunk popped open throwing all their loot in front of my car. They finally got it under control and pulled over. I almost ran over their back pack. I'm so glad no one nailed me from behind because I had to slow down quick.

Anyway, suggestions for gifts to bring to China?
( Here's a picture. Just because. )

I've just signed a contract to work for a school in Yantai, a coastal city in the Shandong Provence of China. I'll be there for one year. But everyone that goes to Yantai says that their 6 month visit turned into 2-3 years because it's such a great place. So hopefully my year may turn into something more...

God put this together so well, I can't believe it. Last semester China just wouldn't leave me alone. I hated it at first. I wanted to stay in Japan and do the whole missionary thing out here. But China weighed on my heart more than anything.

Finally I broke down (I'll leave the details of that for my auto-biography ^_^) and God gave me three specific verses proving to me that China is the place. After I quit fighting it I just fell in love with China. Now when people ask me about it I say I love China like I have already been there. But that's how I feel. It's not a love from me. I don't want people calling me a missionary though, that's a loaded word. I'm just going to be a Christian in China.

I could write pages on how much everything has been put together by God, but I'll just leave it at that.

Here's to China!
.cheers

This week. Possibly the worst week of my life, and it will only get busier for the next eight weeks.

I could be teaching in China starting on the 28th of this month but I turned them down yesterday.

I wish I could just walk away from all of this, but God has me in Bible College to finish. The easy way isn't the best way.

After I'm finished I would rather die than have anything to do with CCBC. And that statement only begins to tap into how I feel.

...pray