I'm back!! Sorry for the absence.. was away in China (XinJiang). It was a real eye opener for me.. and a very good trip indeed. Thank God for the safe journey and the chance to meet the teenagers there. It was quite drama cos we started out on a bad note with the driver and we ended up reaching our destination at 1am and it was literally pitch black on the way to the place. I almost teared when I reached. Seriously, I thought I was going to die that night in the wilderness and no one will ever find me. China is just so big.. it's scary. Or maybe Singapore is too small so it feels safe. Anyway, it was good to spend 5 full days with the students, listen to their life stories and also share my testimony with them. It's interesting to meet them because they are young teenagers but they are a lot more street smart than Singaporeans. They have a huge interest to learn English and get out of their country but money is usually the problem. Really makes me appreciate a lot of the things that I have here. They also taught us Wygur language (that's their tribal language) though we spoke in Mandarin most of the time. The kids are really fun loving people and they gave us all a Wygur name each.. and I'm called Gezel. Nice name! :-)
The country is generally very beautiful but the place is just HUGE. We travelled 900km from one part of xinjiang to another (that's like traveling from singapore to penang and more I think) just to get up to the mountains and stay in mongolian yurts. It was worth it I must say. Something that I probably will not experience in a long time, if ever, again. Lots of pictures.. lots of mountains and natural scenary. Have a look at the link below! Those are not the full set of pictures actually, these were from my 2nd sd card, but there are just too many to upload!!!
Anyway, came back at 2am on Monday night. The flight was delayed for 2 hrs plus due to bad weather. Was quite sad at the guangzhou airport too cos we ended up having to transit for almost 6 hrs!! So nice to be home now. Went back straight to work on Tuesday and finally managed to finish the week today. Yeh!! The weekend is here!!!
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