updates again

as with every trip overseas, there will always be new news.......gee haha. i like the pun. be it in your own country or during the trip itself, there will be good and not so good stuff that occurred.

so what did i learn from my china trip? wow i promised myself i wouldn't go back there for a long long time after what happened last year where i thought i would be going for a one year stint there and it turned out all my plans went down the drain when i found out God had other plans for me which was to go back to the marketplace (of work) first. so well i guess i have definitely recovered from that. it was just a shocker that time. not too much of a hurt.

so this time i forgot what happened and there i was back in my ancestors' (at least 3 generations up) hometown. not the exact place but well same country. and this time haha it was WITH my parents and their team believe it or not. i know, no one would believe i actually would have gone with my parents. but yup the trip happened. and it was pretty ok too. i guess i got to know my parents better in a different way. like seeing them in action (teaching, haha) and getting to know their friends and how they interacted with their friends. And of course they got to know me better as i expressed myself a lot more as well.

needless to say, i enjoyed talking more with their friends (age ranging from 11 to 56 yrs old). haha one whole family with two teenaged boys came. my roommate was fun to chat with, and joke with. the rest just opened up about their views on work politics, bgr, churches, and their own lives.

it was really fun and the best part? No accents!! no offence to other with accents but look i have my own unique accent which is the singlish accent that people everywhere have trouble adapting to. lolz. ok most other countries except our neighbours.

Its amazing that when you meet in person the country that you always hear about or read about only, you realise how different it is from what u hear about. going with an open mind despite what you hear (the negative) really makes you experience China culture in all it's beauty. the people's attitudes and hearts are so underestimated here. Man, have most of them got enthusiasm and more "Stranger friendliness" (open to talk to strangers) and asian warmth than we have as a Chinese race put together. The food is so good too, nonwithstanding the toilets of course....