Okay I have to leave for church in like 3 minutes... but I'm gonna pound out a quick journal entry. Yesterday we had orientation. It was cool. James Buckner is the missionary here and he was totally telling us how Hong Kong and Macau are the gateways for entry into china for finances, ideas, and spiritually too. He was so encouraging us to go to CHina and everything. He totally has a heart for china. One weekend we're going to guangzhou and we're gonna bring bibles in... yes smuggle bibles! Shhhh. don't tell anyone. Dude its gonna be crazy! I only read about this stuff in books! hahahah this is so awesome. Well I didn't get sick from the ghetto food so that's good. The church I'm teaching at wants me to go to their church today. Dude they so took care of me its crazy. They treated me to dinner and everything. I love being around them. Its a small church and there are three english teachers going to that church. The deacons and pastors are our assistant teachers! there is this 18 year old guy named Thomas from canada who was on my team and he was getting frustrated with them so he took charge of the meeting! hahha dang man! and everyone was listening to him really respectfully and stuff its crazy. Dang I love it here. I ran into candy last night on the MTR(subway). Can you imagine that? of all the subway cars... she walked into mine! ahhah dang thats crazy. It was cool I got to talk to her a bit yesterday. She came to our hotel and saw elesea and stuff like that too. I got to hang out and play guitar with some girls from cinncinatti last night too. Okay I gotta go.. gonna be late for church. Bye

Its 10pm on Friday the 12th in Hong Kong. Today was my first day in the city. Man its like a huge china town. There are a ton of these huge high rises in the city and its really a pretty spectacular skyline. THe weather is super hot and humid. Its so thick you feel like you can slice through it with a knife. In Edinburgh I remember it was so cold that when we walked by a store and felt the heat we were just drawn to the store. The same is here, except we're drawn to the cool air conditioning. Today I got off the plane and then we went to our hotel. BP International HOuse is where I'm staying. There is a really nice view of the city from my room. THe first meal I ate was won ton noodles. It was really cheap... like 3 US dollars. Then we ate at this really ghetto place on Temple Street. It was so nasty. It was like right out of a movie. We found a bug in one of the straws. I hope I don't get sick from it. The meal was only like 1 US dollar per person. Hong Kong is a pretty fun city. Very unique and has its own character. Today was basically a free day. We begin orientation with the missionary James Buckner tomorrow. I'm staying up trying to fight the jetlag. hahah. Okay I'll write more later.