How Did I Get Here......
 
About 6 months ago I was living in Provo for my first semester at BYU. I had returned from a 2 year mission to Uruguay last September, and was finally but apprehensively in the process of trying to figure out what to do with my life, how to settle down, and what to study whilst trapped behind a desk for the next 3 1/2 years of my life. But like it says in the description, this blog is about my experiences living at a childrens' boarding school in Changzhou, China... so obviously that plan didn't work
   It all started with an iphone app. One of my closest friends, who had served with me on the Brazilian border came and showed me an app somebody had developed called Lunchbox, which basically kept us informed of all the places on campus where we could be bums and snag free food. Well, it quickly became a hobby of ours, and we set out on a quest to bum as much food as possible by sitting through presentations and meetings that didn't apply to us in any way whatsoever. There was free pizza everywhere. Free pizza at Brick Oven for someone explaining why we should sell DVDs back east...free pizza for sitting through a computer science department gathering...so much free pizza.
   After about a week of not paying for our meals.. we were invincible. No salesman was too persuasive, and no meeting was too exclusive. We became these pizza-consuming brick walls to anyone that was trying to convince us to sell something or join their club. But one Friday night... it all came crashing down. Free pizza + a five dollar bill for anyone who would come listen to an hour long presentation about International Language Programs at the Provo library.... Seemed like child's play to seasoned professionals like ourselves. But as I sat in that chair I made a fatal mistake... something happened that changed this series of events for good..........I payed attention.
This blog is me admitting defeat.

So here I am! Tsing Ying Foreign Language School. It didn't take much thought nor much time for me to sign up... I did the paperwork, and quickly was assigned to teach at a school in Weihai. Once Colby joined the bandwagon we got reassigned to Changzhou, one of the smaller Chinese cities with a population of only about 5.03 million people.
We arrived the last week of August and will be here until just before Christmas. There are 20 of us here living on the 5th and 6th floors of the dorms, the girls up top and the guys down below. I'm hoping to spend this time experiencing as much of china as I can, while working on music and photography. So you'll find a little bit of everything in here.. there isn't really a fixed agenda. Maybe if I get ambitious I'll even throw some vlogging in. But everything one step at a time.

PS. Check out this blog my friend has here! searchgreatperhaps.blogspot.com