Students learn about the western events calendar that we celebrate. Students are aware of our celebration of New Year, Christmas Eve and Day, but less aware of Good Friday and Easter Sunday. This opens up an opportunity to explain what these holidays are about and why they are important to Christian worldwide. In return students tell the teachers what events that they celebrate: Chinese New Year (Spring Festival), Dragon Boat Festival, Mid-autumn Festival, and National Day. Tonight, many teachers share dinner with the students in the students’ cafeteria. This offers an opportunity to further our friendship. The originally scheduled Games night was postponed due to heavy rain. Students will spend the entire evening doing the concert project. Each class will perform a 5-minute song and dance on stage in front of the entire summer camp students and teachers. We notice that they are all very talented students, and they can be very creative.

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A new week and a new day. This week, in additional to our regular class works of drill on vowels, consonants, oral reading and multi-media, the students begin to plan their biggest project – the musical performance. Classes will be preparing individual theme based on a pre-assigned “color”.  My class has the color of Light Blue and the students decided we will sing the song “Blue Moon” and develop a 3-minute play to go with the music.

Tonight at dinner, the school principal allows us to have dinner in the students’ dining room. I had the pleasure to sit with 10 students sharing some food and personal stories. 80% of students are from farming families. As soon as they finish summer camp, they will immediately return home to their respectively villages and help harvest corn.

After dinner, the D school (my school) holds the Festival night (this is similar to the one held in the Y school last Friday. Students really enjoy the fun of playing games while learning English at the same time. Face painting and balloon hats are big hits. This festive night ended with lots of fireworks which is funded by donations by the foregin teachers.

There are plenty of photos. Unfortunately due to limited internet access opportunity and somewhat unreliable speed, I will post them at a later date.

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This being Sunday, both schools have a “Cultural Exchange Service”. This is to show the students what Christians do on Sunday morning back home.

We sing many songs. The Canadian team performed a drama that depicts God sending His Son Jesus to the world and died on the cross to free us from our sins. After the service, students have many questions, creating opportunities to talk about Jesus openly. Many students in my class are deeply moved.

At 1pm, one large bus takes off with 36 people to visit another village where a primary school was built a few years ago with support from the Australian team. This school (named Ji Long) currently needs further assistance to add more room for the dormitory. WCPC’s China Short Term Mission has made a donation of $500 for this worthy cause.

After the visit to the school, we move on to visit a church which was started by a family whose mother was healed of chronic ulcer. The family was on the way to a witch doctor but a Christian overheard them and suggested that they visit a pastor.  She was prayed over and was healed in one week. They wanted to start a church and the woman’s daughter was appointed pastor as she was the most educated in town. Thus a church was started and now both the daughter and her husband, are pastors of the church.

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