When Security Guards Give You Melons...

As if life couldn’t get more interesting, a few days ago I was given a random melon by one of the security gaurds for our apartment complex.

Earlier that afternoon, I was planning to teach my last class of the semester for the company workers. Since it was our last class, I decided to teach food vocabulary, and of course, bring some snacks along so we could celebrate our last class together.

However, to my disappointment, no one showed up….except for two of our apartment complex’s security gaurds who were currently on duty. My Chinese friend Phoebe (and translator for the class) and I talked with them for a little while, and I agreed to teach them English for 5 minutes. After the five minutes were up, we gave them some snacks and told them to get back to work.

After our no-show class, I decided to go for a quick run. And to my surprise, on my way out of our apartment complex, one of these two gaurds ran up to me and gave me a melon.

“Weishenme? Why? ” I asked. And although I didn’t fully understand his answer, I believe it was for teaching him English.

To be honest, there is no point to me sharing this….except that this silly melon made me smile all weekend. Because it was so random….and because I kept forgetting to eat it. Every time I would walk by our kitchen table, I would find it sitting there…and I would just chuckle a little to myself.

Ah, life in China.

I finally chopped into it yesterday…and I must say, it was pretty delicious.

So that being said…..when security guards hand you random melons….I guess laugh and eat them with your roommates?? :)

And for those of you asking for Him to give me joy for each day….thank you. Today, He supplied it via a melon.