My homestay...

A lot has gone on in just the last two days here. I got my homestay. They're all so sweet, but I'd say I undertsnad about 5% of what they say... haha I'm not gonna lie I'm pretty frustrated right now. It's very hard knowing what you want to say, but having absolutely no clue of how to say it. I really wish I could just fast- forward a couple weeks to when I can start carrying conversations with them. My immeadiate family consists of an older brother of 29 and a mother of over 60. Then I have aunts and uncles around a lot and an older sister from a different family ( I guess she'd be my cousin). Her name is Kou dan. It sounds almost exactly like my English name. My first night with them they took me out with the whole family for Hot Pot. It was really good, but some of it was super spicy, like make me sweat burn my tongue spicy. hahaha But it was good! I told them one of my favorite things to do was dance. So, Kou dan convinced the whole family to go to a club together.... I danced with my 60+ mother in a dance club. hahahaha It was an absolutely priceless moment. The whole night I had to refuse drinks and I felt bad because I couldnt really explain why very well. I really hope they don't think I'm rude. This morning I woke up early met Lisa and we went to pick up the man we met the other night. He showed us where he lived and then before we had left for church had bought us drinks and fruit. This man lives in complete poverty and he absolutely insisted upon treating us to those things. Want a lesson in giving? Take that one. We then headed out for church. One the way Lisa realized that I would most likely be the only white person in church and I was carrying a bag of fruit... I think I drew enough attention to myself. The whole service was in Chinese but they had translation on like a broadcasted station. So I listened to the service on some earphones. hahaha They sang Come Thou Fount, in Chinese, so unfortunately I couldn't understand or really sing along, but it was really cool to worship in the same place with other people speaking a different language. I think I'm past my honey moon stage with the study abroad thing because now I'm starting to get frustrated with stuff like not being able to speak well, having to bathe with a washclothe, and not being able to flush toilet paper. Little things... but I'm just a bit frustrated.