OFFICIAL!

So i really wanted to blog but thought i didn't have much to say but then i realized you haven't heard yet! It's official!! I get to go! My parents hadn't given me an exact yes and it was my birthday and all day i was like if they don't say yes i'm just going to ask so it was the end of the day and we were opening presents and the last one i opened was Rosetta Stone Mandarin Chinese :) That's when i knew it was a yes, obviously and then my dad gave me a Taiwan folder with all these maps and pictures and calculations from English things to Taiwanese things, things like money, distance etc. And, it was hilarious, he had googled directions to Taiwan just for the heck of it and it actually gave him driving instructions for the whole thing and it was like 10 pages long. So then i was like wait do they expect you to just drive across the oceans? So he said no go look at what it said, so i did and here is what it said....first to get to hawaii it wants me to kayak across the pacific ocean for 2,756 miles or 14 days and 5 hours, no not kidding then to get to japan from hawaii it says to kayak across the pacific ocean again for 3,879 miles or 20 days... it only gets better watch its like they run out of ideas, so from japan to china it says.....jet ski across the pacific ocean for 486 miles or 13 hours and finally from china to taiwan, swim across the pacific ocean for 102 miles or 20 hours. I was dying laughing at this point and was like this can not be serious but it was he simply googled directions from midland, tx to lo-tung, taiwan. So go google directions to someplace across seas and see what you get! So anyways i was thrilled! It made my birthday :) The more and more i hear and think about it the more excited i get about it. Yes the more it becomes a reality it does make me nervous but i'm just ready to do it, so excited, and i know God will help me with all i'm nervous about. The reaction i keep getting is wow that's far away and thats a long time and i just have to smile and say yes, each time i do that i get more excited :)) I've been looking at all of my friend's pictures and practicing chinese, which by the way, they say english is the most difficult language to learn, i SO disagree, chinese is crazy it's just a bunch of sounds for a certain words then after you get the right sounds for the right letters you have to put it with a picture and remember the picture, i am so not even there yet and it's already difficult, my mouth can not make a lot of the sounds! So anyways, now i'm working on paperwork for a visa and things like that, and i realized....I finally get a stamp in my passport!! It's not Italy but i think this might just be better :) So anyways i'm really looking forward to meeting all the people that live there, to learning the babies names, to seeing my friend that is there now, to just everything, like i have no idea what to expect and what all could happen in like 11 weeks or something like that but i'm looking forward to the that, the unknown! And i can't wait to see what God does, what he does there with the babies and all the people living there, what he does through the new relationships that will be built, what he'll do in me, it makes me so happy just thinking about it :)

Oh dear i just realized how long this is, no one is going to read this... lol oh well again it's just as much for me as you, so if you don't read it at least i'll still have it :) and if you do, you are a very very kind person:) Well that's all for now!!