Getting to Know our Colleagues

"Andy" and "Rose" are husband and wife Engineering profs who live on the 12th floor of our apartment building... he also serves in an advisory capacity for the student government organization on campus, and claims his students are always talking about what a great job their foreign English teachers are doing... so they took three of us out for pizza and a movie (Monsters University) ... in English with Chinese subtitles, although they probably would've been fine without the latter!

New Teammate

L2R: Catherine, Valerie, Emily and Grace @Xiabu Xiabu

Our first chance to eat out as a team (right after our second team building session of the year)... we chose a popular hot pot chain.  Emily (pictured on Grace's right) is the newest addition to Team LX (LiangXiang)... but she too has been in China longer than we, so we can still can't shake "newbie" status!

Back at BIT

We arrived to blue skies and a crowd of proud parents helping their incoming-freshman sons and daughters settle in... Grace and I remember being in that role ourselves with Bonnie, Kara, Nate, Tim and Will... and miss them already!

Summer Wrap-Up

It has been a whirlwind of a summer... back in Jax now for the last few days before our flight back over the north pole.

It's been fun sharing with friends and family, and even with former students like these young men (Andy and Stanley) who both had Grace as their 6th grade Math teacher. They're Chinese-Americans and have worked in their parents' restaurant "China 1" for as long as we've known them!