Life in my China world over a cup of green tea

At a coffee shop right by my house drinking a cup of green tea. I am SUPPOSED TO BE grading papers, but avoiding all that. I am really sad about leaving this place. I have such a heart for China and have made some good friends here. I hope that I can incorporate China in my life somehow going forward. It will be nice to be in America which I think is the best place in the world to live. It will be nice to run in the grass and have clear skies and hot weather and swimming pools, family and friends who I have known for years without having them leave months after I get to know them like is what happens here in China so often. I have learned so much about myself in living here - such as - how to make friends rapid speed and what that takes, that I am capable of learning a foreign language, that I can live in a foreign country, and how much my faith and a community of believers means to me. To not have that like is the case here in China is hard. Really hard. We have a place to worship, I have bible study friends, but as a family, we do not feel a part of a united church family AS A FAMILY.