Wednesday, September 12, 2007

Summer 2007 updates

[g] Sorry we haven't posted in awhile. It's been a whirlwind of a summer. But, I'm getting to you now cause I'm taking a break from my Hebrew studies.

So at the end of July, we said goodbye to home church WHCC, META, and to our friends there. We still love the church and we're excited about what they'll be doing there. We went off to help Ted Law plant a church in Houston. Honestly, I think this is one of the main reasons God moved me to Houston. It's been great so far and I'm excited about future opportunities. If you ever want to check out what's going on, hope on to ACCESSLive.org I pray that God will use us in order to make a difference in Houston and in the world, and hopefully bring a bit of God's love to others.

The next day, we left for our 2.5 week Kuo family trip to Japan and Taiwan. I just got to uploading the pictures on my flickr. I had a great time in Japan, despite the heat and Yvonne glued to her Harry Potter book. We managed to view the sites with ease. We saw a lot of temples though, and by the end, we were a bit tired of them. In the city, I had the overwhelming "Lost in Translation" sense. Every store, they would greet you in Japanese. I would say, no japanese, but they would continue speaking. on and on and on. I found it weird that even in the city, some young girls still wear komonos. It's their going out wear.

Our Taiwan trip was limited to us finding enjoyment when our hotel had wireless. Mostly because I was trying to finish my summer school. We avoided a few typhoons, ate tons of good food, and spent a lot of our parent's money. Yvonne got a new curly hair doo while I got household items and pens. (Yeah, I know . . . my life has relegated to just finding house and school stuff.) Katherine Tang showed us around a night market. Sorry we didn't get too long to spend in Taipei!

That basically was the rest of our summer!

But we have an announcement to make too! We have a new addition to our family. (Many of you already know from facebook.) We got a puppy! Her name is Trinity. She's a Shih-tzu and was born on 7.7.07. (She's named after her date of birth, Yvonne's college, and cause I just finished my Trinitarianism class and loved it.) So here she is a couple of days after we got her.


She's growing quickly! We've trained her to sit, down, shake, and sometimes potty on the pee pad. We're working on walking on a leash, and "stay". But I haven't read any good articles on the internet of how to teach a dog to walk on a leash or to stay (before giving another command to get the treat.) Any ideas?

She loves to help us mop the floor too!



Upcoming. . . more weddings, for each weekend of Sept. And now back to my Hebrew. alep, bet, gimel, dalet, . . .