Author Archives: HALEY MILES
Drivers Test in Asia???
We have settled down in the work here and realized the benefit having a vehicle would be for the work and our family. D recently took a trip and had to hire a driver since it was a remote area. The driver was rather impatient and really cut D’s time short visiting with that brother. […]
Harvesting Rice
There is a famous poem here about eating every last grain of rice in your bowl because of how much work goes into planting, growing, and harvesting the rice. This last week, the 1st-4th graders were able to experience harvesting rice! What a cool experience for Colt to be able to do! They didn’t get […]
Halloween Festivities
Halloween is not an Asian holiday. But, for the sake of embracing other cultures, they try to celebrate it. It is actually a lot of fun, because it has quite a different twist. I think it could catch on in the States Friday is always a half day of school at our kids’ school. When […]
Biking with kids. . .
Our friends are visiting, and they also have a 5 year old daughter and 3 year old son (same ages as Kylie and Caden). We all enjoyed the fall weather and a fun bike ride through a nearby village tourist spot! We rode about 9 miles on an amazing newly built bike trail that follows […]
Camping with friends!
We invited the kids’ classmates (and their families) to come join us for camping, hiking, and swimming while they were out of school for a holiday. It was a good turnout. Building relationships. Enjoying His creation.
Oil tea with friends. . .
Oil tea (or you2 cha2 油茶 in Mandarin) is a local thing here. We never had it in Chengdu, but there are oil tea shops all around here in GL. It’s called a tea because it’s made from tea leaves. . . but I’d say it’s more like a soup. You add salt, chives, peanuts, […]
Cao Ping Village
David and I decided to have a date one morning while the kids were at school, and we rode about 1 hour on the motorcyle to a village called CaoPing. I has been preserved (or restored I guess) according to it’s “ancient,” or original, condition. It’s a pretty neat little place.
To the ends of the earth . . .
David and a friend were able to travel out together last week to visit a brother in the countryside. They drove their car as far as they could, then hiked up the mountain quite a ways to reach his home. . . The rice fields are beautiful this time of year. The mountains are covered […]
Mid-Autumn Festival
The Chinese lunar calendar is pretty cool. If you haven’t checked it out you definitely should. We have this ongoing joke in our family about the Chinese lunar calendar. When I was pregnant with Colt (years before our life here in East Asia), according to the Chinese lunar calendar he would be a boy. . […]