English Corner Fun

For about 6 months now I (Drew) have been helping out at an English corner hosted by the Chinese fellowship that we attend. It has been a great way to be involved and a great place to invite students and friends to come check out truth.

This last Saturday, our English corner and an English corner from another Chinese fellowship in town got together (about 75 of us in all) for a terrific day of sharing, sightseeing and simply--some fun.

First, we went to a Chinese fellowship out in the country. They had a beautiful building on top of a hill. They also had a pretty awesome band (Saxophone, electric keyboard, bass guitar, and drum set). Check out the video of part of their performance.

After a time for singing/sharing and an awesome lunch made by some people from the fellowship, we headed towards our next destination--an historic village. (Click HERE to check out their website) I picked up a wooden sword for Titus. He likes hitting things with it!

Here I am with a couple of my good Chinese Friends

Here is a traditional Chinese scale maker.

Finally, we went to a lake--just to walk around and take some pictures.

It was a great trip and fun was had by all. I got to have many conversations--both in Chinese, and in English.

Just a quick funny story about my Chinese. I saw some cows that were obviously male as we were driving along the country road, so I leaned over to my friend and said in Chinese, "Hey look at all those male cows!" He laugh and told me that the word "male" that I used, can only be used for people, not animals, so I actually said, "Look at all those men cows!" I also said, "There sure is a lot of rice fields here." Unfortunately, the word for "rice" that I used means rice that is already cooked so I was actually saying, "There sure is a lot of cooked rice out there!" Needless to say, my Chinese friends kept laughing about that for some time.

I hope you'll keep English corner in your thoughts. It is a great outreach to Changsha and especially university students.

Drew