Good-Bye Car! Good-Bye May! Good-Bye Seniors!

This month has almost come to an end. And as promised, I am posting one more time.  This month has been extremely eventful.  What else has been happening?  Well... we have had to say good-bye to our car of 13 years.  While we were on the way to do some grocery shopping last Friday, the car "died".  Alan pushed it off to the side.  I was able to get free roadside service via our credit card and had the car towed to our mechanics.  The quick prognosis was that it would take another 1200US$ to get it fixed.  Alan at that point said, "NO, we are not putting any more money in this car."  And we sold it to one of the mechanics for 570US$ and he will fix it up for practically next to nothing and use it as his family's extra car.  I was very sad to say good-bye to our great car.  And we now are in the process of finding another car.  Alan has a WISH on his mind. But I don't want to spend the money. We would not buy a new car.  It would definitely be a second hand car.  But even a second car is quite expensive.  I think we will look after our return from the States.  For now, we are borrowing a car from a dear church friend.  Driving it feels weird.  I am still used to driving our wonderful Libero "station wagon".

Good-bye Car!

 

Alan also had his last class with his seniors.  He has taught many of them since their Freshmen year and they have also played on the departmental basketball teams.  So, even though they were seniors, they still decided to take his very difficult debate class.  This picture was taken at the last debate class.

Seniors -- Debate Class

Seniors at one of the basketball tournaments

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WHAT? IT'S ALREADY THE END OF MAY!

 The summer has arrived in Taiwan.  You can tell when you go to the local supermarkets. The stacks of pineapples, large red watermelons, small yellow watermelons... and of course, you don't even need to go to a supermarket. Just sitting at home even with all the fans on, I'm still sweating.  At 7a.m. as I take my daughter or my son to their local junior high school, I can feel the heat. If I want to run without melting or getting heat stroke, I will need to run at 4a.m. or 10p.m. And even at 10p.m. the heat from the cement can be felt.  Two days ago, the temperature reached 33, which was a record high for this time of the year.  The kids are asking, "Can we turn on the A/C?" 

 

This has been an eventful month.  Mother's Day started the month and Alan and I were in charge of the Service. It was a fantastic time of remembering God's gift of our mothers, reading psalms over our mothers and praying for our mothers.  The Service had the Four P's -- pictures, praises, prayers and presents. 

 

After Mother's Day, the kids took their second set of exams with mixed results.  They will have to spend more time on their studies. 

 

We then had the HOP Pentecost Quiet Retreat. What a blessing to gather for the weekend with our church family.  Everything was perfect -- the weather, the food, the worship, the messages, the time for reflection and prayer, the lodging...

Then my older brother, James, came for a visit. I finally dragged him to our local supermarket. He took all these pictures. I have never carried a camera to our supermarket before. 

I will post again tomorrow... for sure before June arrives!!!!

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