Ready, Set, Go!

After two weeks of intensive (100 hours) training at BYU, mostly in teaching English as a second language, but also some survival Mandarin Chinese (different from the Cantonese we spoke in Hong Kong), we will soon be off to Shandong University in Jinan, China to begin teaching university students for the school year. Not at all intimidating, right?

We were with approximately 50 others (mostly couples, but some are single individuals) for this training and we will get to see all of them again next February when we go to Hong Kong for a seminar and our sole temple visit during the next nine months.



The group below are some of the couples we will be associating with on a weekly basis in Jinan even though they will be teaching at other campuses than the one we are assigned to. Two couples (missing in the photo), the Miners and the Joneses, are returning again this year and so had already received the training. We will be living close to the Joneses who will orient us once we arrive.



(L to R rear: Charles and Nancy Rieben, Lowell and Susan Bishop. L to R front: Truman and Carol Leishman, Marlene and Fred Simes)