Introducing...Active April

You may have noticed that I have been an overactive blogger this week. Its true, I have been bursting with news and unable to speak with you the last few weeks, but that is only a partial reason. The reason you have been hearing so many of my lovely thoughts as of late is in fact our latest alliteration month: Active April. (ta da! I felt the need for a ta da there. Too auspicious? It felt a little auspicious.)
We thought of Active April a while back. We thought it an appropriate follow-up to Meager March; once our bodies were emaciated, they would be easier to heave around the track on a midnight jog. In Active April, we will do something active everyday. So far, AA has been a success. Days 1-3 we played badminton (The unofficial sport of the Chinese, badminton is a war of Def Con 5 proportions which I am now fully addicted to), day 4 we climbed a Niu Tou Shan, and today dragged my poor defeated body on a crosstown trek. So now that we are fully, physically active... we have of course decided to evolve the idea further.
We are now actively tackling EVERYTHING. Here is a short list:

• Actively sitting in a tree
  
• Actively spring cleaning
• Actively studying chinese
• Actively speaking chinese at least once a day
• Actively getting our hair done
• Actively pursuing new relationships with students
• Actively purchasing a ladder so that we can actively have parties on the roof of our building
• Actively securing our financial situations
• Actively planning another family vacation
• Actively and systematically eating all the expired items in Angelyn's pantry
• Actively writing home more often
• Actively having a poker party
• Actively seizing new opportunities that come our way
• Actively meditating (which seems like an oxymoron now that I look at it)
  
• Actively remembering to take my medication every day
• Actively developing my plan B for when the chinese government kicks all the foreigners out and we have to return to the states for reading Tibetan news
  
• And...actively blogging more often!

So you can see...we can do nothing simply, but thats the way we like it. So we here
in Shiyan challenge you to take control and actively pursue some course of action this month. We are also taking early suggestions for May. Right now, my personal favorite is "More-of-a-good-thing May" Thoughts?

And if you are wondering how we passed a meager days, check out my photo album below:
Album #1: Meager March