Get thee to a nunn'ry!

The other day we adventured to the Chi Lin Nunnery which proved to be quite an adventure to get there with a long bus ride filled with heart dropping 'OH MY GOD WE ARE GOING TO HIT THAT TINY CAR!' and jumping from one train to the other trip we arrived at the nunnery to greet a dreary rain with no umbrella to ward it off. The Nunnery was beautiful though with lovely gardens and architecture design but I am sad to say that I did not actually see any Nuns since it would have been quite interesting to see their little outfits.

 Chris is being a gentlemen holding an umbrella for me the he wisely had in his bookbag.

 I am not sure what to think of that orange bridge though, I think I will have to settle for amazingly horrible.

 This is the rockery, it is quite literally a room filled with giant rocks, for what purpose I am not quite sure.

 Coy fish! there were a ton of them and they were really pretty and big!

On the way back to the dorms we saw a bunch of woman having what seemed like a picnics on the side of the sidewalk areas and under canopies and such. I thought at first that they were homeless but they were all over the place and it seemed quite odd. Our guide Robyn informed us that they were actually immigrant workers that live with the families that they work with and send money home to their families but they have Sunday off. But since staying at home is being at work they go outside and gather together and have picnics outside by the sidewalk because  there are not really any public parks in Hong Kong, at least none that I have seen.

Yesterday was my first day of classes, I must admit I was kind of concerned since when I had received my schedule there was not professor, classroom, or time listed for either of them. But I was pleasantly surprised to find that I indeed had a professor who teaches both may classes. He had previously worked for Imagi studious, who made the last Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles movie and it seems like he has a lot of interesting things to teach us. What was the strangest thing was that one of my classes is actually three classes from three different majors combined all into one. Even though there are three classes there are still only 6 students in my class, so I guess we will see how that goes.


Katie then cooked a delicious stir fry dinner for us with the help from Bengi and Chris.

Today I have a my first Art of China Class and then we are going into the city to do some exploring on our own so hopefully everything turns out well!