This morning, we taxied over to the GICF, an international fellowship for ex-pat Christians. It's quite a colorful gathering, with people from Asia, North America, Europe, and Africa there. You'll find on their website what they're all about and even sermon outlines and recordings. After service, many of us gather for a buffet one floor below....a great deal at 20 rmb (about $2.25).
This evening we had dinner with several like-minded folks associated with our university. It was pretty cool. I'm sure it was much more fun (and comprehensible) for S. conversing in the native tongue, i was pretty much lost most of the time, despite the occassional interpretation. But it was still a good time of fellowship. We were meeting to discuss a time of regular fellowship.
We are also back in our flat on the other campus - back to reality... We've spent the last few days on the main campus because it's been freezing here and the power has been out in our flat for the entire week.
School is supposed to start tomorrow, but i have neither schedule nor textbooks - this should be fun...
Maybe some of you wonder what passes for TV entertainment here in China. Well, Guangzhou is lucky in that it gets "Pearl" and "ATV" from Hong Kong. This probably isn't so in provinces outside Guangdong. So we get to watch "Late Night with David Letterman" a lot. He comes on every night on ATV, but comes on twice on Saturday. They love him in Guangdong, apparently. We also get NBA basketball. It's pretty popular here, of course in large part to Yao Ming. They play a lot of Houston Rockets games on CCTV - Channel 5, a kind of ESPN for China. Non-Rocket games get aired as well. There are several other CCTV stations here as well, all with different types of programming. Much of Chinese TV consists of Chinese soap operas (modern and classical), game shows, variety shows, old opera, and sports.
