Today was a good day. After class, I came home with Jon while the girls went out to IKEA with my teacher. At 6:30 pm and went to gym for a couple of hours. Back at the apartment, Mike and I put together some information for the supervisor at the hotpot place. We intended to give her the gift at hotpot, but when we went over the other girls informed us that she had gone home early. It was slow today at the hotpot place. Mike and I ordered a bubble-tea and we showed some of the staff pictures from Mike's computer. The girls didn’t want us to pay for the bubble-tea. Despite our best efforts they insisted so we had free bubble-tea (with extra tapioca balls). Scrolling through the pictures we came to one of Santa Claus. One of the girls asked what we do in Canada for the winter holidays. Mike was able to introduce our belief and explain a bit of the meaning behind Christmas.
The girl Mike spoke with has no concept or rather has never heard of the g@sp#l. After sharing briefly, she said, "no wonder the first time I saw the four of you I felt as though you were very different from everyone else." She said she had some sort of inner sense that we were nice people, before she even talked with us. Thank you my father for shining Your light in and through us. Continue to work through our relationship with our friends at hotpot.
The Li-Hui also shared with us that she only earns 22 yuan a day or rather 3 dollars Candian. Like many in China, she works more than twelve hours a day. With that being said, there is signficant fiancially stress for Li-Hui and her husband. Li-Hui husband does make a little more than she does working as a chef at a hotel. Their dream is to one day soon open their own business. I consider a meal in Beijing to be cheap if it costs be 30 yuan. Hearing Li-hui explain her fiancial situation I was confronted with the stark reality and my overwhelming privelage. Like my experience at the street market, this is something that I need to wrestle with and think about. Beijing Brother
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