Guitar Hero

Hey everyone. Just wanted to post a quick update since it's been a couple weeks since my last one.

For the past few months, I've been practicing the guitar quite a bit. Kirk is a really good player, and he's been helping me a little, though it's difficult with only one guitar between the two of us. Kirk is the only one that can play that well of our group, so naturally, he's the one who has to play all the time when we perform at random events. He also plays every Tuesday night at Mr. Mai's because that's Music Night. He likes playing, but not the whole night! He doesn't get too many chances to just talk with people like the rest of us do.

I've loved learning to play and decided it was finally time to start (trying!) to help him out. Recently, I've been playing a few songs. I definitely don't feel all that comfortable doing it yet, and I'm by no means a great player, but it's fun to try something new. Especially something I never thought I'd be able to do!

I've also purchased my tickets to come home for the summer. I'll be home from June 29 - August 23. I'm hoping to do a little traveling to see as many of you as I can. Let me know when/if you're available!

This past weekend I went to KTV (karaoke) yet again. Nothing special, except one of the Chinese girls that was in the group had the English name "Ice Tea." Thought you might enjoy that!

Also, another of my students has become a C! It's been really cool to build relationships, hand out Books, and have a lot of great conversations with different students and friends. I'm continually humbled that I get to be a part of things like that.

Lastly, I recently finished a great book called "Heaven is for Real." You might have heard about it. If you haven't, it's about a 4-year-old boy who almost died during surgery and visited heaven for a few minutes. It's pretty incredible and almost unbelievable, but the author (the dad) gives some amazing examples to prove it's authenticity. It was really encouraging to me and helped me realize that there really is more to life than this world. You might say that's wrong. I would say you're wrong! :)

I think that's pretty much everything. Hope you're all doing well!