Journal Day 8: June 14th

Journal Day 8: June 14^th

Prompt: Free Write!

What did we do today?

A lot! This morning we slept in a bit, and then went downstairs before breakfast. We went out by our bus and David began teaching us Taiji. This was very difficult because we didn’t know the complex movements, and it was difficult for David to show us all at the same time. It was still fun though. After that David taught us all how to play a game. It was a mix of hacky sack, monkey in the middle, and dodge ball. There are two teams, one in the middle, and the other broken in half on either side of Team 1. Team 2 (the team on the outside) tries to throw the ball at the people in the middle. If they get hit they’re out, but if they catch it, then they can bring back a lost member of their team. The goal for Team 1 is to stay in the game as long as possible, and the goal for Team 2 is to get them out quickly. The game is a race against the clock. It was a lot of fun! I liked that game… even though we lost… badly… J

After this we went back to our rooms to finish packing and getting ready. We left for the airport about an hour later. Our flight took us over Repulse Bay when it landed in Hong Kong… and it was so pretty. We had some free time at the hotel then; to get settled in, take showers, etc. It’s really hot and humid here in Hong Kong. The humidity must be close to 99%. As we would walk down the street, water would collect on our arms, not from sweat, but from the pure moisture in the air! Our hotel cranked the air conditioning up really high, which was nice… but it was funny when I walked outside, because as soon as I did my glasses would fog up and I couldn’t see anything! Our tour guide; Jennifer, took us to a quick restaurant in the mall. Well what we thought to be a quick and easy meal didn’t exactly turn out that way. She only got food for one table. She said she wanted to make sure everyone would like it… but she only gave it to one table? So we waited there for what felt like 30 min. to an hour, and we still hadn’t even gotten our drinks yet. I don’t know why it was taking so long. Also, our friend Sammy was sitting at our table… she’s a vegetarian. When she told this to Jennifer, our tour guide couldn’t find her any vegetables like all of our other tour guides could… nope she took her to a bakery and was trying to convince Sammy into getting a cake. Sammy just stared at her and said, “Ahh, yeahh… This is my dinner. Cake doesn’t exactly qualify as dinner.” I don’t know. Anyway… We got our food and had to eat quickly because Jennifer came running around franticly telling us that if we didn’t leave now we would miss the light show downtown. So we all ran to the bus station (We took a double-decker). After the hour long bus ride, we got to the show late and missed some of it. It was really cool, but very hard to get pictures of. We were all frustrated with Jennifer because of all the confusion, and misplanning. We ahhh… left… Jennifer in the city. J But then we had to take the bus back, another hour drive. The show was definitely worth it, if you were doing something else in the city as well. It was hard for us to enjoy because we were so hot, tired, and dehydrated.

The night was still fun though, and I’m not complaining. Tonight was a good experience, even though it was hot and stressful.