How About That

It's funny how life works when you leave it all up to fate.

About a month ago a list of nominees went out to the general membership of the Northwest Chinese Cultural Association asking for people to vote for our 2010-2012 board members. I thought I had mentioned that I wasn't interested in a second term on the board, but apparently if I had I didn't speak up loud enough. When I saw my name on the list of nominees, I voted for the people that I thought would do a good job leading the NWCCA and implementing the changes that we tried to set in motion back in 2008. I purposefully left my name off my voting list in part because I didn't think I'd actually be elected again (the last time was basically because no one else was interested in being on the board and I wanted to keep the NWCCA going) and because I was really wanting to focus my time and attention on other aspects of our crazy lives. In the end I finally decided that it was up to fate... what was to be would be.

Much to my shock (and bewilderment) I was actually elected to be on the board again. As our NWCCA out-going president told me "People really like you!" Twelve hours later I am still surprised, but also realizing that apparently my work is not yet done. And this time I am the true minority... the only non-Chinese member of the board. It would appear that I need to expand my vocabulary beyond "cold beer," "bottom" (as in what you sit on), "ni hao," "Zai jian,", family members, the names of a couple random fruit (which I learned while watching Sagwa with Savannah), and a few others that I can't recall right now.

For now I will leave you with this as we head into the last week of the Year of the Ox...

Gong Xi Fa Cai! Xin Nian Kuai Le! Happy New Year.