Another interesting day of unexpected delights. Gary Winsor took us to the New Territories and the Ecclessia Bible College where we met the current President of the college and some of the administration. A very fine facility with about 200 students enrolled. The really fun part was going to the 700 student high school. We were invited into one class where students were doing a photo project for Chinese history. They had period costumes and we're dressing up and getting photographed. Of course, the teacher and students in the class wanted us to dress up too. We played along and had a lot of laughs. Even Matthew got brave enough to dress up for a picture or two.
Then there was rounds of some of the classes where students were quite excited to meet Matthew. One of the Chinese students, also named Matthew, was quite pleased with his own name after he met Matthew. The other students cheered for him. I guess Matthew has become quite popular...a lot of twittering behind his back and shy smiles.
Because Gary had a previous appointment, we tended for ourselves for lunch and decided to go to a Chinese restaurant for lunch. We had Dim Sum from a Chinese menu aided by a waitress they called in to communicate in English. She explained it all in Chinese which wasn't a great help, but we found some pictures that helped. The food came in steaming bamboo baskets and we both found it to be delicious.
After lunch we were joined by Korrin who has been based in Hong Kong for a few years. She was married 10 months ago, and unfortunately Adam was working and couldn't join us. She took us to "festival walk", a very large multi-level high end shopping mall, before going to work teaching English. We had coffee and visited and said our good-byes. What a jewel!
From the mall, Matthew and I once again challenged the MTR and found our way through downtown Hong Kong onto the bus heading for Victoria Peak overlooking the city. The return trip on the MTR was through a sea of humanity, literally. The trains were full to capacity and there is no personal space. Again you meet some wonderful people at close range, this time a young financial planner working for AIA.
Another day done, early to bed, early to rise at 5 a.m.
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