Hey, everyone! I'm officially in China now. We moved into our dorms and are getting settled in. I had a little trouble setting up my internet, but now it's working great! (it's in my room too! so I don't have to go anywhere!) So back to where I left off, before we left Hong Kong...
So we went to an international church on Sunday. They had services in English, so it wasn't hard to understand.
It was really nice, the pastor was from Canada. After church was over we went to dinner, but before we left the church it started raining like a flash flood. It was awesome! The workers at the hotel (where the church was held) had to put up blocks to keep the rain from flooding it, cause it was coming up several inches already. :)
We went to dinner, even though it was raining off and on. It was funny though because it was raining so hard and thickly that even if we did have an umbrella it would soak through. So we were all getting wet anyway. We went to dinner and I ordered this soup that turned out tasting really gross, so everyone shared with me a little of theirs. After dinner we went to a history museum. It was pretty cool, they started out talking about how the land was formed and went all the way to where they are today. It wasn't that exciting to me, but I know some of you would have enjoyed it. Those pictures are on my Face-book.
On Monday, we had a morning class but the afternoon was free. So the whole group decided to go to Victoria's Peak. We took the tram to the metropolis, which was awesome in itself. We saw several really famous buildings, like the one that was used in Mission Impossible 3 and another one that was supposedly in The Dark Knight (not so sure about that one...). Those pictures are on Facebook also. After that we had to take a bus up to the peak. We had tried to plan it so that we got there at sunset, and it actually turned out really well. We got up to the peak, which had the most English we had seen in a while, since it was very much a tourist site. After we got up to the top it was really awesome.
We stayed up there until after dark, and they have a light show every night at 8. It was pretty cool, but I didn't manage to catch it on camera. Here is a night view...
It was really pretty.
On Tuesday, we all decided to go up and see another tourist attraction, the big Buddha. That was another tram and bus ride up a windy road. It was another touristy site, but there were a lot more Chinese than there were tourist. It was pretty cool, there were a lot of really interesting things that we got to see about the Buddhist religion.
It was really beautiful, but it was a lot of stairs. I'll try and post more pictures of that on Facebook.
On Wednesday we are going to Xiamen to move into our University dorms. I'll post again later. Talk to you later!
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