So here is the second part of my last entry. Hope you enjoy. The first picture is of a ice skating rink inside the mall and the other is of my swollen foot from traveling.
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The bus ride was kind of fun. It afforded us a lot of really good views of the city and all the sky scrapers. Everyone on the bus (including me) was stuck in “ooooo/aaawwww” mode for the duration of the trip. It was a lot of fun.
We then finally arrived at the temple housing. We were all amazing at the warmth and people started shedding layers. Unfortunately our room keys were not ready yet and so we had to stand around and wait. Finally we were able to get it to the rooms.
The temple housing was a new experience for me. I knew that the housing was tight but I didn’t realize that it would be this tight. In the room that we were in it was about 12 feet wide by 25 feet long. Inside that room there were four bunk beds packed into there. That left about three feet in between the bed. It made for an interesting time trying to navigate around the room and led to some good laughs while doing it. Luckily we were spared the squatter for now as our room has a western toilet and a really nice shower.
After that, the whole group headed down to this massive mall located probably half a mile from the housing. The mall was seven stories tall and featured some very well-known and expensive western brands. There we got our food for the stay as we were not going to be able to eat out for every meal. Our diet was quite simple; peanut butter and jelly sandwiches. The cool thing was that they had quite a few western brands. For example we had Smucker’s strawberry jelly. 🙂
After we were done with that, we went to the temple. One thing that the temple housing asks of people that stay there is that they perform at least two ordinances a day at the temple. I did baptisms and did confirmations. It was amazing how small the temple was but how they used the space to good use. I had a good time trying to pronounce those Chinese name. 🙂
After that, Jordan and I went back to the housing and I feel asleep accidentally. I woke up to Jordan laughing at me. Haha, and then I crawled up to my bed and went to sleep.