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Hody floks....Today is quite a laid back day. Well, maybe it didn't start out that way. This morning I got ready for the day and then I started on my school work. My mom was feeling not so good and my dad was working. I was controlling my sister when my dad called and asked if it would be ok if he could go into town. I said sure and asked if we should eat lunch. He said to heat up some left overs and so I made pb& j and heated up left overs. The day started out pretty crazy for me and then I got a head ache and started watching tv and so now it's turned into a pretty laid back day. Hmm... That sounded confusing. :o)
Heh... so there you have it even if you weren't interested. :o) I'm sitting on my bed with my laptop in my lap tyiping to you guys, now. It will NOT stop raining. We've hit the rainy season. Sometimes, I can't stand it. I don't think we had much of a rainy season in Texas. I should be thankful, though because I've heard how extrememly HOT it is there, right now!! woo wee! Sorry....
I guess that there won't be any pictures this time. Sorry. I like keeping that up but I just don't think I have any good ones right now. :o( Oh wait, maybe not. woo hoo. I just said that it's been raining a lot and stuff so here's a pic. It looks neat to me. This is what you'll see if you walk down our driveway. Pretty awesome! :o) That tinnish place to the right of the lower road is a river. We want to go tubing in it sometime. :o)
Here are some reasons while living in a different country is crazy very much fun:
1. Learning a fun language
2. making friends with people that have a COMPLETELY different background than yours
3. listening to our national friends say our names
4. buying things at roadside or large stores
5. talking to anybody and just listening to what they have to say

So, thoes are some things that came into my head at the moment.
I'll explain
no. 1- I don't know if I've said this before or not but one time I went to a restaurant and orderd my rear end instead of ribs. :o) They sound A LOT alike in this language. :o)
no2 - My really good friend was just telling me last night that her ancesstors had to flee form the Japenese and live in caves in the mountains. The same mountains that are around her village now. That's just one small example. She had many more things to say but I can't exactly remember everything. :o( I wish I could say something to my friends like that. This same friend has not had a lot of schooling and every day she would get up early in the morning to cook and feed pigs then she's go up into the mountains and cut down grass to feed the pigs with the next day. It's just so crazy how different we are and how well we get along. It's most definatly got a lot to do with how we're both part of Dad's family. :o)
no3- My friends don't call me by my english name which is perfecly fine. I like being called by Ma Li. My parents don't use their national given names very much neither do my siblings. When I hear them being said it just makes me smile. I really don't know how to explain how they say it but it's like they put tones on our names and put some of this country's sound into it. It's really great! :o)
no4- My dad was just telling me about how when he went into a store today a lady just followed him around the whole time that he was shopping and when he got something off the shelf she would ask him if she could hold it for him. :o) lol It's quite true! When you walk in a store some people will just stare at you. It's as if they think that forigners don't need to buy anything. When you ask how much something costs they just laugh. Sometimes it's funny and sometimes you want to look them in the eye and say, "I want to buy this, do you mind??" :o) :o)
no5- This one has a lot of stories behind it. My mind has drawn blank on some really good ones. :o( I'll have to write about that one later.

Considering that you probably didn't even make it through this whole thing for fear of falling asleep, I think that I've said enough. My brain can't think of anything creative to write about right now. I just wanted y'all to know that I'm still kickin and I think of y'all all the time. :o) Love you guys!

Holli ( you can call me Ma Li) :o) :o)

Here's a shout out to Kristi who is looking at my blog right now....... Hey!!!!