CLASS IS IN SESSION

To get ready for our China adventure, we were required to attend some training at the BYU Kennedy Center. The training consisted of 10 hours of instruction for 10 days in two weeks. Our classes started at 8:00 AM and ended around 8:30 each day with 1 hour for lunch and 1 1/2 hours for dinner. LONG DAYS! Kirk and Midge Evans were our mentors in this program.

Kirk is pictured above with the Chinese gong he rang to signal the beginning of each class.
Below you can see our classroom at the Kennedy Center where we were packed in very cozily. There were 56 of us in this group, all preparing to go to different universities throughout mainland China.
In this picture with us are Donna and Roger McEvoy. Donna was a neighbor of ours when we lived in our first home in St. George in Morningside, She lived down the street from us. Her daughters and my daughters were, and are still, good friends. They are going to Xian, China.

The Adventure Begins

We left our home in St. George on Sunday, July 31st, after attending church to travel to Springville so we could begin our China Teachers Program training. My sister and her husband are graciously letting us stay in their home while we attend our first week of training. They were also our hosts when we attended the MTC 3 years ago prior to our mission in the West Indies.

Classes started this morning, Aug. 1st. We have classes from 8:00 AM - 8:30 PM with breaks for lunch and dinner. I'll tell more about the classes in another post because I'm exhausted. We had a real treat at a FHE tonight. A former student from Shandong Province who took English classes at a university in Beijing from teachers from BYU told us about her experience and what we might expect from our stay in China. She is studying for her Master's Degree at SCU in Los Angeles right now.

Going to bed - more later.