Today was fantastic! We had such a fabulous time :)

Mike & I were asked by our friend Ray to help out today. We met Ray & his wife on the trip we took to Harbin back in January, and we saw them again on the trip to Yunnan province. They're an older couple from the U.S. living in China and they work with the YMCA in Beijing.

We brought six students from BCCSC with us to help out with the swimming party for children living in the Bethel Home, homes in China for visually-impaired orphans.

Mike got in the water and helped a young boy swim all over the pool, and the six students & I helped from the side of the pool and in the locker rooms.



The BCCSC students were amazing! They spoke with the children in Mandarin, translated for them, helped them move around the two pools. They impressed me so much with their kindness & friendship towards the children :) ; it was so nice of them to use some of their weekend to help others.



After the swim, all the children & the adults had a meal in the YMCA restaurant together. I got to sit with two little girls (one of them was my little buddy, Lu Lu) and I shared my tofu, meat & watermelon with them. They were so hungry after all that swimming!

When the morning was over, we walked the children to their bus...and we all felt so happy to have met them & to have shared time with them, and a little sad to see them go. But we will definitely see them again...the YMCA director was so pleased with us coming to help that she's asked us all back for the next time the children come for a party :)