| Monday, August 21, 2006 |
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Who needs NY when there's HK?
Maybe its the cantonese, maybe its the hilly streets... whatever it is, kts got me hooked. Spent three blissful days wandering round the city, the markets - having loads of porridge, figuring out how to get where we want to go, bumming on the ferry, watching canto tv.. woot. This is my idea of fun. Maybe I am a city girl after all, despite all my (apparently, but not according to me) tree-hugging tendencies. Have you ever seen a soccer match with canto commentary? Its the best thing ever. They're evil but totally hilarious -a must watch!
Beijing was pretty cool too, except that everything was under renovation or repainting for the Olympics. Sadly, the great wall was shrouded in mist/fog/pollution - so no great pics. Everything is huge though.. honestly, did these guys have an inferiority complex that they tried to address with artifact size? Overall, it was a trip of impressions.. it isn't so much of the buildings and monuments that I'll remember, its the sensation of standing before them, the knowledge of what it must've took for its construction and the vision(or paranoia) behind the construction. One concrete thing that did come out of the trip is this realization. That I need to learn chinese. Honestly, I've never felt so vunerable in terms of communication before. Can't read, can't write... can't even understand that the lady selling rice wanted us to get a card to pay for it. BAH. So its back to cheena school for me.. lets see how much I can learn in a month. Used to think that I could learn from the peeps around me, but that ain't happening because I know that I don't have enough discipline to speak mandarin alone with em. Besides.. if I ever want to work in HK I still need to be able to read and write a little, if only to fill in immigration forms. The other thing that I want to do is brush up on french. I don't know why I'm so fascinated by the language and culture - wanna do all I can while I'm in the area starting sept. Its surprising how many people here do french though (well, perhaps I'm just ignorant). But I want to be able to say confidently that I'll understand the rapid fire speech that natives speak, not just the tourist-speak.
There's also something that I need to think and pray about - its an opportunity that I'm grateful for, but I do want to know His will too. I don't really know which parts of my reasoning are godly, and which are just me being afraid of change, afraid of giving up what I had planned for myself. So I humbly ask, pray for me please.
Job 33:13- 14
Why do you complain to him that he answers none of man's words?
For God does speak- now one way, now another- though man may not perceive it. |
posted by wenster @ 2:56 PM  |
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