A Day of Rest

Today was Sunday, and the group of us went to church in the city of Hong Kong, at another YMCA which hold’s services there. The service was in English and for those who spoke English, so there were a lot of “foreigner’s” there, including us. Basically the service was identical to a CRC service, or at least very similar to the Orland CRC church I’ve been to, which I found ironic. Sure there was on Greg Hartnett or Brian Bouchek, but I mean, very similar. After the service and a quick lunch, we headed back to the YMCA and relaxed for the day, spent some time at the library, and that’s about it. Overall it was a very nice relaxing day…..minus my nap. Monday meant classes, so we all went to bed early.

The sunrise brought classes from 8am to noon, which was very exciting to learn a lot about Chinese language, and start learning even more about it. By noon however, I was ready to be done for the day, and study hard for my quiz the next day. However, Aaron Stuvland and Deb Kim, two of the directors of the program had flown in for the next week, so we went out with them. We went to “The Peak”, where you are basically at the highest point on Hong Kong Island, even higher than the batman building I believe, and you basically can look down on all the buildings….makes for an awesome night shot, as you can see in the pictures. Then we had Burger King for dinner, showed the directors a bit more of Hong Kong, and headed back. Got back at midnight, and memorized 1-10 in Mandarin. Yi, er, san, si, wu, liu, qi, ba, jiu shi. Don’t bother trying to pronounce it, because I guarantee you will pronounce it wrong.

We leave for Xiamen Wednesday, so basically tomorrow we will be relaxing and relaxing. I’ll update from Xiamen. This blog may be blocked in China, as well as Facebook and what not, so I may be changing to another blog, which I will try to send out somehow. If it looks like I just stopped updating, email me at Samuel.mahtani@trnty.edu and I’ll let you know the new blog site if I have to switch.

so be it,

Samuel Mahtani