Better Late then Never

It has been a long time since I have posted something. I started a blog to keep friends and family updated about my experiences in China...until I got to China and realized that google is banned from the country. That experience may have to written into a book. 

To my current situation I thought about keeping up with it while in the Dominican Republic...and it got away from me. So I guess it is better later then never. 

I thought my posts would be about amazing travel experiences, networking, food, people, and other experiences. I never would of thought my posts would be about the reality so many visiting foreigners don't see while in another country. People really don't know what it is really like until they are fully emerged into a new country with no friends, language barrier, no support system, and everything being new all over again. 

BUT...this is the greatest desire in my heart, to be aboard experiencing different cultures with first hand experience. A quote that I have come to live by, "To travel is to discover that everyone is wrong about other countries." Aldous Huxley.  Somethings you simply cannot read in a book, google search, or obtain from others. You personally have to be there to experience those feelings, culture shock, wonder, and mystery. Only then will you truly be enlighten to things outside of your comfort zone.

Even though I am in a better place now compared to China.  I still feel like I am walking around a mountain needing to learn the same thing or something different. So, all I can say is, "Here I am Lord, What do you want me to teach me?"  All that is within me I want to be like Isaiah he heard God asking, "Whom should I send as a messenger to this people? Who will go for us?  I said, "Here I am. Send me." (Isaiah 6:8 NLT) 

I have wanted to be aboard for so long and when God finally released me to go after trying and then giving up because I felt stuck and stagnant in Huntington, WV.  Now I realize it was a season of preparation and would not be nearly strong enough to handled what I have had to to deal with in China and currently in the Dominican Republic. 

During my season of preparation I fasted and prayed like never before on the Word of God. Standing firm that I was going to work aboard and applying for countless jobs....with job interviews going well. Yet, nothing ever worked out and resulted in me feeling like I was not good enough to get a job even though I have the education and teaching experience. So I stopped applying for jobs and planned on staying where I was and not going aboard.Until one church Sunday my Bishop prophesied to me that I am getting ready to leave to go some where. I just looked at her like "I stopped applying for overseas jobs and looking to settle her at my current job." Fast forward several months later I got the desire to apply for overseas jobs again.  So I called my Bishop and told her, "You were right!, I am leaving to go to China." And I left from Dulles International Airport on May 31, 2015

The Beginning of the Chinese Experience......