Yesterday I finished my reading summaries for my course in Eastern Religions. I also did a bit of reading for my other courses. Mike and I met up at hotpot and talked with our friends for an hour or so. Once we were back at the flat Grace and Tom hinted that they wanted to try hot pot. So once again we headed back to see our friends. The last couple of days I have been feeling discouraged with my Mandarin. Tonight I was encouraged by the managers kind words. She said that she appreciated my sincerity and admired my hard work. I don't say this to toot my own horn, but to return praise and thanks to God who is the author of all good gifts.
This morning I headed over to BICF. I was hoping to help out one of my friends from Thursday fellowship but I couldn't find him. Next week I hope to assist him with the teenage guy fellowship group. I met up with Grace, Tom, Mike and Gen at the Mandarin/English service. Today was Palm Sunday! We had a guest speaker from Texas who spoke on prayer in a message titled "The kind of prayer that get's heavens attention!" It was good. After the service I headed back to the apartment and had lunch before lying down for an hour or so. Once Gen and her friend returned home from the second service all of us headed off to see the Forbidden City. It is truly something spectacular! You really can't understand the magnitude of the Forbidden City unless you see it first hand. I especially enjoyed walking through the Imperial Gardens. There were some unique and ancient trees that were pretty interesting. I am sure that this experience will be etched in my life memory bank for a long time. From the Forbidden City we headed off to the street markets in Wong Fun Jing. I bought some lamb and tried some of Mikes ostrich and deer. The ostrich was really good. I was rallying the guys up to try fried scorpion. We tried it and actually it wasn't bad at all. It tasted kind of like a potato chip. As much as I love the experience of the street market I absolutely hate the smell of stinky tofu. Even many of the local Chinese plug their nose when walking by stinky tofu vendors. After we had dinner at the street market, we browsed around some of the shops. Mike has been feeling kind of sick the last few days and wanted to get going. I really couldn't complain, most of you know how much I love shopping. Back at home I spent the rest of the evening relaxing and getting caught up on emails and things like that. In Him
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