Well another day is finishing up and today was slightly less eventful than the past several. Whether that is due to a loss of energy and gusto for sight seeing or the realization that we have a lot of things to accomplish work wise before our camps begin next week I'm unsure but either way today was spent meeting with Wenda and Siu Cho to discuss the upcoming week and camp changes( there have been many due to new government school closings- currently we have just 3 camps that are scheduled and we hope to schedule more in the secondary schools since the closings have been mainly in the primary schools) our first week of camp will be with the Mother's choice Small group Home and we will have just 10 kids... compared to the 40 we were scheduled to have previously. Wow how things change quickly.
After meeting with Siu Cho and Wenda we headed down to put more money on our octopus cards, do some work on our programing stuff at Star Bucks, and then a bit of grocery shopping. Now it would seem that most grocery stores would carry at least some form of soap and/or lotion, but lo and behold this very europeanized grocery store carrys neither soap nor lotion, but it does carry "crazy feet" A.K.A Fruit by the foot.... amazing. So we had to go to The Body shop to find Soap and lotion- very unimportant facts but I just find it all very interesting. After our excursion we made the trek back to our flat Maggie counted that the distance from Kennedy Road to Borret Road which isn't even the all the stairs probably about 2/3 of the stairs we climb when going any where on a given day is 192 steps. I better have some buns and thighs of steel by the time I get back...These aren't even nice steps. They aren't steps that you can take with nice consistency and even stride, no no they are like babysteps that you really have to work your muscles including your arms and be intentional about stepping on each one and you can't take them 2 at a time or you end up in this awkward half step where you are half on one half on other with an intense pain moving up your calf muscle.... very dangerous...Anywho After making it back we spent some time just hanging out I painted my nails which are shockingly long due to the fact that things are a bit dirty here and illness is always just around the bend( and besides my mother always reminds me what a filthy habbit bitting my nails is :) )
While hanging out I started throwing out questions that are stupid get to know you questions like " if you were stranded on a desert island .... " those types of questions anyways One of the question was if you had a 5 song sound track to your life thus far what would it be... It could be just random songs you like or fitting to things that have happend... that got me to thinking about what songs would I use to describe this trip thus far....
My pretrip song I would say would be I Shall Not Walk Alone by Ben Harper
then we've got the plane ride- Peter Paul and Mary Leaving on a Jet plane ( solely because the chorus says I'm Leavin on a jet plane don't know when i'll be back again... seems fitting right?)
Then I'd say Probably Street Lights by Kanye West ( We went to the peak where you can seriously see what seems like all the lights. We went at night so it was spectacular. The first few days were exhausting. It seemed like we were constantly going constantly moving and sometimes it seemed fairly sureal and I didn't really experience it all. Anyways this song besides being quality is decently fitting) then i'd say We all need saving by Jon McLaughlin. My Family wrote me this stack of letters with one to open every Sunday and by the time Sunday rolled around I was missing home a bit thinking about what my family and friends were doing, but then I remembered the stack of letters and opened one up. It was perfect. Not only did I nearly have tears because was laughing so hard. My sisters like really funny :) We'll see what songs pop up for this week. I'll attempt to keep the soundtrack for Hong Kong up to date...
Because we are moving to volunteer housing tomorrow we've been doing laundry which has been interesting.. complete with white shirts dyed pink and loads of fun( yeah that was a sad attempt at a pun) anyways today the extremely odd thing I missed from home- oreos... Wenda was such a dear and brought us oreo's, but oddly enough the oreo's here taste seriously wierd. Like the filling or something is different. It's like a bad attempt at an April fools joke. Anyways please eat an oreo for me:)
Cheers
Tina
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