Post China Trip Hang-out

It's called PMS, post missions syndrome. We couldn't get over the kids at the orphanage, and we definitely could not get over each other. So of course as soon as we got back we hung out!

Pool for the first time! It's so fun!

And then we had to get to the reality of life, which really sucked.

12 days in Yanji, China Part 2

Here are my teammates' photos:

We met Tim (guy w/ the straw hat) at the orphanage and he had been volunteering there for four months already. The boys adored him, and our team also got very close to him. He's great!

At 백두산, there were a million people there!

Taking a break fro shoveling rocks! It's definitely harder than it looks! 

The first massage of my life, it was amazinggg

All the kids studying hard on their summer break!

Digging in the rain made the dirt sticky and extremely difficult.

12 days in Yanji, China Part 1

I went to an orphanage in China this summer. It was great, and I can't wait to go back next year!
Here are some of the photos:

Ready to work on the first day!

Hard core cementing

We got to visit the Tumen River, which is small river that divides China w/ North Korea.

95% of what we did at the orphanage was help to dig holes which would 

eventually hold pillars for a ramp. It was hard work!

Nu has been to the orphanage every year for seven years, and the kids love him!

A random girl at a kabob shop who fell in love with us.

Watching and playing soccer with the kids was one way of bonding.

We were able to go and visit a famous mountain called 백두산.

It was sooo cold, and I'm sooo tan from all that construction work!

These are all the holes we dug!

The last game night with the kids!

Trying to play mafia.

Miss these kids soo much!

So hard to say goodbye...

I'm going to upload some of my teammates' pictures on another post.