this weekend has been kind of a thinking week for me. i've just thought about a lot. i think it started when we sat next to two business men from egypt, and i'm just sitting on the bus and thinking to myself um.. theres an egyptian sitting next to me. what? like this stuff doesnt happen to me. i'm the one who hears about it from somebody that has these experiences or watches it on tv. it doesnt actually happen. i think its finally sunk in that i'm in china. and its what only been about 2 months.
so we (chantelle, jae and me) stayed at a youth hostel on bar street. its pretty much the night life street and its pretty sweet, if you're into bars but it has some pretty good restaurants and its right on the waterfront of the pearl river. so that was really pretty to get to look at everyday. and at the hostel the cheapest room was a dorm room where theres 3 bunk beds so you actually just share a room and you have a big locker to store your stuff. so since there was only 3 of us there were just random ladies that would show up or i'd wake up with some stranger in front of me. it was a neat experience..? haha. really it was alright. i love international hostels because they're just busting full of foreigners like the first night i sat down in the lounge on the internet and theres a group of people from england just laughing and having a good time outside singing some drinking song (which actually got really annoying after a while) but theres just tons of people you see from germany, russia, and the middle east. its just a cool environment to be in.
we just explored a bit around there while we were in guangzhou and found some sweet shopping streets. and then we took a taxi to the hotel where our meetings were held.
saturday it was at this fu cheng gardens place and then sunday we had it at the ramada inn. pretty much never thought i'd ever have church at the ramada. lol. oh so funny story, callie volunteered the four of us here in guzhen to actually sing at this district conference. ha. and callie gets conveniently sick. lol. but i actually think it went really well, jae and chantelle are amazing singers so they covered up my mediocreness. but i think we sounded really good.
we also met some new friends. so we went to the saturday night session and this district conference was with people from the shenzhen branch (ours) and the guangzhou branch. so we met 2 girls and a guy named gilbert who were from the phillipines. the girls were teachers and gilbert was a designer. and then there were two other guys from the states that are here on an internship from BYU. and really wierd but jae actually knew one of them like him and her boyfriend are really really good friends, he was from idaho and totally had the idaho accent that just reminded me of rexburg. so after the meeting we went to mcdonalds and got some ice cream and hung out.
Brother Garn was our main speaker, he's the asia area authority. so that was really neat to get to hear him speak. and after the sunday session they fed us at the inn and then we got a young single adult session with him which was really good and way neat.
just meeting all of these people and getting to experience all of this has just made me so grateful for everything. getting to be here and live with the chinese people and getting to experience a new way of life has just been really humbling and i hate to say it but i dont know how i'm going to leave. its tearing my heart in two and theres still like 3 months left.. uh..
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