Fareaststreet is the creative outlet of Kristie and her husband Jason.
July 2008
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Visa Issues and the Shortest Trip to Hong Kong Ever
Taiwan has a few rules in their visa granting procedures that frankly don’t make a lot of sense and, to put it mildly, make life difficult for me.
The first rule is that language students can’t have wives that are just here being a wife, she needs to be a student herself or have a [...]
A Real Conversation
The three of us are on our way home from a hamburger fix at Chili’s, we took a taxi because it had started to rain.
Ellie: (points to a raindrop on the window) That! (translation: Tell me what “that” is!)
Kristie: That’s a raindrop.
Ellie: Dwah (translation: drop)
Kristie: (channeling my inner Julie Andrews, singing) Raindrops on roses [...]
A Flower for Sunday
Sing praise to the LORD, you saints of His,And give thanks at the remembrance of His holy name.For His anger is but for a moment.His favor is for life;Weeping may endure for a night,But joy comes in the morning.Psalm 30:4,5
Gimme gimme gimme CHEESE!
This girl loves her cheese. It is the only food she ever specifically requests and she has even started opening the fridge herself to get a piece of cheese. We try to limit her to only two slices a day, but this usually gets stretched to three or [...]
A Real Conversation
This conversation is over a year old, from back when Ellie was just a 3 month old little bean, chubby and round, and not yet getting anything but her mamma’s milk. I laugh every time I walk by this particular neighbor’s house.
Neighbor: Hi!
Kristie: Hi! (heads over to let Neighbor get a peak at Ellie, knowing [...]
I Just Want To…
I just want to… glance at my email. run to the bathroom. chop up these things for dinner. pour myself a glass of water. lie on the floor with my eyes closed for 30 seconds.
But you just want me to… pick you up. read you a story. find your ball. take you outside. [...]
A Flower for Sunday
“The LORD bless you and keep you;The LORD make His face shine upon you,And be gracious to you;The LORD lift up his countenance upon you,And give you peace.”Numbers 6:24-26
Sometimes I feel like a half-eaten fish.
There is a great Chinese saying, actually there are millions of great Chinese sayings, but one that I like in particular is a way to say you are tired that literally means: “I am so tired I feel like a fish that has been half eaten and needs to be flipped over so the other [...]
Some Kind of Duo
I told you all about how Ellie now loves to wear her swim cap around. This one is the rubber kind, and she needs help getting it on because it is tight. One day she brings me the cap so I can put it on her. Then she comes back with the goggles. (She [...]
Children’s Gospel Camp
The first week of July was also our first week of summer classes. But we got a little extra vacation because it also happened to be the week of the children’s gospel camp hosted by our church.
We were *somewhere* in the rural, mountain-y part of Taiwan. I wasn’t really paying attention, but this is the [...]
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