china, here i come.

i leave for china one week from today! i'm so excited for this adventure i'm about to take...for this new chapter in my life. what an amazing opportunity i have to teach english in weihei and experience the chinese culture. i can't believe how blessed i am! somedays i cannot wait to go and start my adventure but then somedays i'm extremely nervous. the unknown has always been very scary to me. my mom would say that i like to have "all my ducks in a row". in a week lots of things are going to be very unknown haha. i'm going to an unknown place with unknown people and an unknown schedule. i won't be able to pick up the phone and cry to my mom or text caleb when i miss him. it's going to be so hard but i know it will be worth it. eating gross food, sleeping on a box spring, being freezing cold, being very far away from home & family, saying goodbye to my missionary 2 weeks early, showering in cold water, doing laundry by hand, and everything else that comes along with living in an undeveloped country for 4 months will all be worth it. i get to have this amazing, life changing experience. not only do  i get to teach sweet little chinese kindergartners, but i get to travel all over china! when my group isn't teaching, we get to travel to where ever we want to go. i get to see the great wall of china and the terracotta warriors. i get to travel to beijing! i've always wanted to travel and see other parts of the world  and now i get to experience it. and eating the food i may learn to love is part of that experience. and so is sleeping on a piece of wood. and not getting to shower every single day. i'm sure it will be very hard at first but i know that after a few weeks, i'll get used to it. and i'm excited! and although i have very mixed feelings most days and although i know going to china for 4 months will be hard, i'm very excited and i know it will be a great experience...one i will never forget.


hopefully i can think of this when the hard times come while i'm in china.