In all honesty this has been a very difficult week. Despite the fact that we are on a beautiful island that has an atmosphere of peace and tranquility, I’ve felt anything but. The amount of information that is being crammed into our short time together as a group has been overwhelming and exhausting. The exhaustion [...]
“Ring, ring, ring.” “Wei?” I say, lifting my hand to my ear while pretending to hold a phone. “…” Nothing but silence comes from the person standing back to back with me. I stop the role play to give a few first year Campus Target workers a little bit of info. Once I explain that [...]
Black spots bounced in front of my eyes as I finally gave in and sat down on the steep slope. My hair was soaked with sweat from the intense humidity and my back ached from the weight of my heavy backpack. The “hill” that they had warned us about was far worse than my expectations. [...]
I was almost certain that I saw tears welling up in his eyes. As I sat at the dinner table with three of my new Asian friends, I had the amazing opportunity to explain to one of them for the first time that there was a Father out there who loved him more than he [...]
My heart sank as we walked through the door, turned the lights on and saw them all scattering across the floor. Our new apartment that we spent hours cleaning and just moved into is infested with cockroaches. 18 roach traps and 1 can of Raid later, I’m hoping that we have the problem under control. [...]
It’s hard to get used to the stares. Some of them are from smiling, giggly faces, some are glares, and some are just blank. I’m never quite sure if they are welcoming stares or stares of resentment. Either way, it is just one more adjustment. I had been warned of culture shock before coming here, [...]
I’m finally in my city! We’re still trying to organize everything and find apartments, so right now we’re in a cheap but nice hotel for a few days. We arrived yesterday and everything was as crazy as when i left for Asia. We had to hike down the hill with our luggage at 4:15 a.m. [...]
I’m finally in Asia! Actually, I’m on an island off of Hong Kong. The plane ride wasn’t too bad; there were monitors in the back of each head rest so i was able to pick from a number of movies whenever i wanted. The food was good too. Being in the middle seat and next [...]