Graduation, hiking & very old audio equipment

It’s been a while since I last updated so I guess I’ll fill you in on everything that’s happened. Alright I’ll start from last Saturday, we slept in, like we normally do on Saturday and were woken up by a phone call from our friend Cameron asking if we’d like to grab lunch, he ended up taken us to the same place we had eaten the day before and ordering the exact same thing, but it was still really good. Then after lunch we decided to look for a cool place to film the Paradigm video, but the battery for the camera died so we didn’t get to film. After our failed attempt to film the Paradigm video we went with some of our friends, Lynn and Joyce to the Napatoa Temple, which is located on the side of a mountain and then went down the other side of the mountain to a “plant park” and it had three main parts, desert plants, mountain plants and rainforest plants. Then on the way back Joyce and Lynn got us lost and we ended up having to climb a gate to get home.
Sunday: Got up early and went to Fellowship, ran audio at Fellowship, not my favorite venue, think of it as the LP chapel, but with equipment from the early 90s, unreliable to say the least. After Fellowship we headed to Good Service Lady to grab some lunch with some American friends from Fellowship, I think Good Service Lady is my favorite thing about Sundays. Later that afternoon we went to The Bridge, I lead a group by myself for the first time, it was quite a lot of fun, met tons of interesting people. After The Bridge we got a call from Stephen’s friend Jason inviting us to dinner, we accepted and explained that we had already made plans later that night so we’d need to be done around 7, he insured us that it wouldn’t be a problem. So we set off for did with Jason and his two friends (I can’t remember their names) and we walked for close to 30 minutes, I thought a few times we were lost, but they said they knew the way. After we arrived Stephen and I realized that the place they had taken us was only a 10 – 15 minute walk from our dorm, meaning that they had wasted a lot of our time, once we were seated the Jason sterilized his cup and bowl using very hot tea and then when he was finished he turned around and threw his bowl full of hot tea onto the floor, I almost burst out laughing, he then explained that is was a “bad habit” of his. After finishing dinner we realized that it was a few minutes after 7 and we were suppose to be meeting some friends around 7:15. We ended up running the entire way back, I guess close to 2 miles, in flip flop, and were only a few minutes late. We headed to a graduation party with our friends Lynn and Joyce, it turned out being more of a talent show then a party, but it was still fun.
Monday: We “teacher English” at the Nissi bookstore to about 8 people. After that we went shopping to buy some snacks before the hurricane hits, by the way the hurricane isn’t going to be a big deal, just a lot of rain. We also printed our hand outs for the Word study. The 4 Fish invited us to come over to their house for dinner and it was very good, some sort of Mexican dish. After dinner we walked on the beach and picked up glass bottle. Afterwards we took a taxi to the Nissi bookstore for our Word study, the cab driver was a nut, he forgot to turn on the meter until half way there and then he didn’t know how to get there, so we got to use our 10 Chinese words and hand motions to try and tell him how to get there. It ended up being fine and we got there in time.
Tuesday: We got invited back to Novelink and we arrived there around 9, they didn’t really tell us what they wanted us to do over the phone so we weren’t sure if we’d be teaching more class or what. Turns out they had some questions and some error that we helped them work out. It was a lot of fun, I think I could have spent the whole day at Novelink. After we got done at Novelink we decided to try and shoot the Paradigm video again, and I had seen some cool abandoned building when we had taken a bus a stop to far. The building ended up being a little more difficult to get to then we had originally thought, but it was well worth it. We ended up exploring the buildings until the sun had set. On our way back to the main road we heard a Chinese lady yelling something, but we couldn’t quite make out what she was saying and once we were on the main road she came over and started talking to us, she said she had a major in English and had been looking for someone to practice with, we ended up walking along the beach with her and talking for a few hours. We got onto a very full bus that was heading to Xia Da there were a lot of highschool students on the bus and one of them said “China” in English and I ended up starting a conversation with about 6 highschool students because of the word Chine. Isn’t the Father amazing!?

Well that all the updates I have. Thanks for all the PRs.