Holiday in Hong Kong, jet lag not included!

It's been a bit since we've checked in. October has just flown by, and boy has it been choke full of awesomeness. We started out with a trip to Hong Kong during Chinese national week. I started teaching 3 days a week, Eric got quite a few new projects at work, and we both  received challenging callings for our church. In addition, every single electronic device in our home broke within a 10 day period and many needed replacing. To complete our month, we took a short jaunt up to Xiamen to visit Matt and Caroline before their China send-off. Part of me looks back at our time here in china and thinks, Wow, I can't believe we've been here only 2 months! The other part says, Dude, have we really only been here 2 months!?! It feels like so much has happened in such a short period of time. It might take me a couple days, but I'm going to post our pictures from the big events over the past few weeks. I think that Hong Kong is a good place to start.

Getting back to "normal" life

*This was a blog post I wrote 3 weeks ago, and forgot to publish, oops*

This week, we finally had some good news. Our Residence Permits came! That means we're officially chinese citizens. JK, we're not. But it means we can come in and out of the country as we please. These permits are good for a year, but I'm told that the renewal process is much simpler than the original application. Thank goodness. In total from start to finish, the entire process took 4 months! We started mid-May, received the temporary visa mid-August and the permanent one mid-September. Holy cow.