New blog

hey guys! I have a new blog and it is a xanga. www.xanga.com/farouteast I will not be deleting this one for a while,but i will not be updating it. if anyone has this kind of blog please give me some tips on how to run it. thanx!!!
Holli

My birthday

Oh boy!!! I had a trememdous day today! 13!! In the morning I was completely blessed with a new didgital camera. Then our family and our neighbors went to the park there are just a couple pics on that. Then, we went to this reall beautiful and yummy restaurant. I took a lot of pics there. We had a party here after we finished a lond day of fun. i got to spend it with all of my awesome friends. It was a truly great day. Enjoy the many pictures. Holli





purple flowers
at the front gate fish
us girls


All the little kids screamed Happy Birthday

All of my friends that made my
birthday so meaningul
my special birthday cake
Thanks for reading and looking! I had a super great day!

HOlli

The pictures - FIRST LOOK BELOW AT THE POST AND THEN COME BACK TO THESE PLEASE DON'T LOOK AT THESE FIRST!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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I had a GREAT Easter! After we had a brunch with our neighbors and celebrated for a little while then I went to my National friend’s fellowship. I was asked a few days before to make up two dances to perform there. I did and I taught it to our two neighbors Amanda and Hope and also my sister, Katibeth. After waiting a while at the fellowship Amanda and I did sign language to a Bethany Dillon song. After that we all did one to another song. It was very successful and it was an answer to some yarpin’ that I wasn’t nervous doing it in front of three hundred fifty people!! I hope someone was moved in the BEST WAY after watching us. :o)
After the performance about three or so people just HAD to have their picture with me. It was fun. I loved watching their faces light up when my dad showed them the picture on the camera.
After the pictures we went to a restaurant for ice cream. There was a really big festival going on called po suai jie or water festival. EVERYONE had buckets of water! I went and asked the cashier in the restaurant for a bowl of water. She gave it to me and I climed to the second floor. I opened the window and poured the water on people going by. When about twenty-five people saw me doing it they came storming in to get me. People were pulling on my arms to try to get me outside. Hope and Katibeth started screaming because they thought that they were hurting me. I’m glad they screamed because they left and said they were sorry to them. As I walked out the restaurant I noticed that they were all lined up right outside waiting on me to come out. Hope and Katibeth started crying again and my dad picked them up and ran out. They only sprinkled them. It took me about ten minutes to finally leave. When I did I was drenched!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! You can look at the pics below. Feel free to click on the pics to enlarge them. Bibi!!!!miss you all!!
Holli

Funny and refreshing :o)

Funny **Hey Guys! I have a funny story to tell. Yesterday, a guy came to our house and invited himself in. He just walked right in without asking or anything. Our helper saw him and he started asking all kinds of questions about our family. Our helper told him that he should leave. He told her in the language, “No, I’m going upstairs to look and to see the Americans.” He took off his shoes and my helper held her nose and told him to put them back on. :o) He came upstairs and sat down at the table and talked to my dad. It made me kinda frustrated if you know what I mean. My friend later told me that he was EXTREMELY nosy….duh! She knew him from before from something. Well, now that I look back on it it’s funny. :o)
refreshing** Yesterday, was also our neighbor’s birthday. We had a fun celebration! Afterwards, a national friend came by to my house and we talked for a couple hours. She is my best friend here and when we talk she always encourages me a lot. I had a good day yesterday. It was funny, eye opening, and refreshing.
Have a good day!!!
Holli

Hey - dunna a title

see the tents in the background

Hey Guys! This week has really been grand! If you've been p**ing thanks a TON! Last week I was going through some troubles and I was having a really hard time with forgiveness. That's something that I need to work on still. A national told me that I don't know about friendships here. I have a really good friend though and she encourages me and I love her alot!! We go places together and I really am glad that she's here for me. When that national told me that I got even more upset because she is the only friend I've got here. My mom told me that "Well, atleast you know about American friendships like you and Abbi." That wasn't so helpful at the time because I started to miss her and all the other friends I had. It was just a not good week! There were tons of other things that I don't even want to get into because I'm having a much better week this week and I don't want to ruin it now by thoughts.
Everyone is well now. If anyone has heard and is worring about my dad, He's fine and doing well. Thanks for your p**yers. I did not get sick during the time when everyone else was. Praise Him! I am so thankful! My stomache is very strong and i love it for that!
I don't think I've ever gotton to tell you all about the camp out I had a while back. My mom and our neighbor's mom, an American family of five, went off to a retreat and our dads did a little camp out for us on a Friday night. We roasted hotdogs and marshmellows. It was a blast! We pitched a tent....well.... my brother pitched a tent. We sang P & W songs and camping songs. When it was dark I told scarry stories to two girls that live next to us and my brother. I slept in a tent with my sister. That night it rained and the sides of the tent got soaked. When I woke up the next morning I was soaked, but it was all worth it. The picrtures above were all taken at the camp out.
My birthday is coming up in seventeen days!! WOO!! HOO!!! 13!!!!!! I'm not quite sure what I will do on the day but I'll think of something. I know that the nationals are going to have a party for me which I'm VERY excited about. They can think up amazing things to do and they really know how to have fun!
Well, I guess that's all I have to say. Leave me a comment if you read this. Oh, If any of you have msn messenger let me know. I would love to chat with you some time. If you have a hotmail e-mail account and don't have msn messenger you should download it. It's free! I'll post soon!
Holli