“If someone forces you to go one mile, go with him two miles.”Nobody “forced” us to come to China, but here we are, excited to see how we will be used in our second year! We returned to China this week and have been slowly recovering the jet-lag.
Why we are grateful this week:
1) Our flight went well; there were no delays and no problems! We left Washington DC around noon on Wednesday, and four movies & a book later we landed in Beijing.
2) After a summer of visiting friends and family, we were finally able to unpack for the first time in two and a half months!
3) The sophomores, juniors, and seniors arrive today!
Please continue to “think” about us:
1) Peter and I will be spending at least three days a week on the Western Campus. Please keep us in your thoughts as we travel to and from the other campus.
2) Our class schedules are set for the semester, but we need to arrange our schedule for visits to the Philip Hayden Foundation, and English Clubs on the Western Campus.
3) We are also considering the possibility of arranging an English Club on our main Campus. There are already few student-run English Clubs, and we would not want to create a sense of competition between theirs and ours. We are also worried about spreading ourselves too thin by adding another Club to our schedules.
4) Peter and Shannon Lucas-Roberts will rejoin our team at the end of this week. They are returning a week late because they are presently on their honeymoon.
5) IECS teachers will be in four colleges this year: Will & Courtney Corder will be in Tianjin, and Amelia Martin, Emily Green, Ryan Bettwy, Tim Phillips, & Jon Allison will be in Baoding. They are all first year teachers in China, and they will be arriving within the next two weeks.
Going the second mile and loving it,
Brad & Jessica Distad
