Earlier this month I was on a friend’s website and on it she had posted her Happy Book. You maybe asking what is a happy book, so I will explain what it is. Back when she was my boss under a high stress job she would encourage us to look on the bright side and so in her office she kept a book titled The Happy Book. In that book we were to write funny, exciting and frustration things that happened. As I though of all this information I decide to make a list of happy things for this month and share them with you.
•We got an unexpected free day
•We went out with our translator for dinner to a traditional restaurant
•On Sunday afternoon we had our first picnic on the beach
•I now have a computer that is in English(for the past six months the computer I have used was in Chinese)
•Seeing the finished work of last semester’s English Committee, our CD Sounds Great is now published
•The English Drama script I have been rewriting and refining was finally accept and a proved by the Principle who originally was the author who wrote it in Chinese
•Enjoying a fast ride home on the back of Gracia’s bike
•Going to Taipei and meeting up with all of the IBLP TESOL Teachers and the IBLP staff in Taiwan to have a refreshing conference
•Getting followed by a green haired guy along with his Chinese friend in black in Taipei who proceeded to take hundreds of pictures of us thankfully we recognized them as friends of ours who know we were going to be there and so they decide to be just a little crazy
•Totally forgetting someone at the conference centre that I was suppose to bring with me to the night market in Taipei
•Trying to de-stress students who are taking their midterms without know much of their language
•Teaching drama that will be perform in Chinese
•Arriving at a meeting that is suppose to have about six Chinese people there and realizing that they are not coming and it is just the six IBLP TESOL teachers
•Finding out twelve hours ago that I have a new brother, but then not being able to get back on the internet to tell my family congratulations and yes I did find out the news
In every thing give thanks: for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus concerning you. (I Th. 5:18)
Josephine Papp
Hualien Team
