I am trying to get back on the blogging bandwagon...somehow the summer schedule, visitors and my big tummy (which means I am more tired) have gotten in the way. Tonight we had the fun privilege of getting to see Nate Sims...who was probably 7 or 8 when we first met him the year we moved to China. He is now 19 and in college! but here in BJ for an intensive summer language program. We love the Sims family and it feels like a strange reversal in some ways that he is now here hanging out with our kids and eating dinner at our house...when Chris and I spent many, many days and nights playing with the Sims' kids and eating lots of meals at Daniel and Marian's home. Of course, Graham was also a very frequent visitor at the Sim home and it seems fitting we are all together for a time. Nate is going to spend the night and go to church with us- get a break from the dorm.
They are all laughing at this face below:
Bennett eats a cupcake with no reservations!
The big boy with our little guys. If our boys turn out anything like Nate, we will have lots to be thankful for! Nate has done great at being a "TCK" Third Culture Kid. He grew up half in Chinese school, half homeschooled. Had lots of foreign and local friends, befriended a minority classmate in high school and became an almost adopted member of their village and now is navigating American college where he is majoring in linguistics and Chinese.
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