Move-a-Thon

Pumpkins in China

Halloween Night

Exciting day for our school, we had our first move-a-thon to celebrate the opening of our new track. The track is beautiful. We were able to see most of the process. It was fun to see the cement being poured and then the artificial grass being put down. We are so excited to be able to have a place to play soccer and baseball. So today was the Move-a-Thon, student went and got pledges and off we went. The money raised will go towards a backpack project for local Chinese students. Well the weather here is a bit chilly. It was 30 F for most of the day. That was NOT including the wind chill. That wind is nasty cold. So we all bundled up and off we went. The boys went around for an hour in the morning and then another hour in the afternoon. We moved inside to walk the halls due to how cold it was. Some of the students walked outside the whole time. I was happy to go and supervise the kids inside. Isaac walked around 29 times and Matthew 26 times. They were so excited. I am glad I only pledged a flat rate. We are all a bit tired from the event so it is movie night in the Smith household.

We found that a local restaurant/store will sell us their pizza dough. We were so happy to make our own pizza. The pizza here in china is a bit strange. Sometimes it has strange things on it like or it has so much cheese that your arteries start to harden just by looking at it. I learned how to make Italian sausage and we found some pepperoni. We were all so happy.

Last week Doug was working on report cards and then ended that fun with Parent Conferences. They went really well and he had 39 out of 41 students and parents show. This week I am working on report cards and when you’re celebrating Thanksgiving I will be having parent- teacher conferences. Strange but true, the crazy thing for me is that I am use to doing 22 report cards and comments and now I am doing about 90 of them. My goal is to finish them this weekend (I better they are due on Tuesday).
We are also planning our next adventure of Christmas break… stay tuned for that adventure.

I will post pictures of the track this week :)