hey everyone! i'm back from china, fuzhou luoyuan.. yup. and it was so so so fun!! i learnt a lot and really really enjoyed myself a lot. i believe i'm speaking for everyone if i say that it doesnt feel like a mission trip at all. but a holiday instead.. yes.

ya. on monday. a group of us flew to fuzhou. ya. that group consisted of aunty mui ing, uncle soon boon, kui luan, my father, cheryl, kim, estelle, jessica, sarah, ziteng, pho, rachel, gloria, delicia and i. ya. the plane ride there wasn't a really pleasant one. there was a lot of turbulance. but i was lucky. i didn't feel as much pain as i thought i would. in fact. i didn't feel any pain at all. yeah. i sat with jess and delicia. ya. (oh ya..cheryl, kim and estelle were in a grp. jess and sarah in another. ziteng pho and rachel in one. and gloria, delicia and i in one. ya. my grp called ourselves the millionaires. cos i have a million laughters, gloria has a million voices and delicia has a million faces. you can ask us to imitate anyone and we'll try our best to do it. and our motto is 'united we stand and together we sit' haha.) anyway. ya. when we reached fuzhou. we split into our groups and pretended not to know the other groups because china is a communist country and ya. we are not suppose to say we are on a mission trip. and a big group attracts a lot of attention. so ya. we split. and that was the only day that was cold. ya. we all gathered outside the airport and ya. met aunty li diang and aunty eunice and then boarded a bus. btw, aunty li diang and aunty eunice are english teachers teaching in first light centre. and also our 'tour guides'. yeah.. we reached the centre in like 2 hours? then we had the nicest FOOCHOW FISHBALLS and DUMBLINGS!!! oh. they were so nice. and the soup too. ya. then we rested for a while and had english lessons at night. ya. i never thought we would be so impactful that from a one day thing. aunty li diang asked us to have english lessons for 2 more nights. ya. gloria liked this guy called david. pho and kim fell in love with jerry. and i must admit. he's a really nice guy with a very good personality.

tuesday. most of us woke up around 6 cos of the noise. ya. people in china wake up around 4 to go to the market. and they horned and horned and horned. yes. it was super irritating. and sometimes they horn for no reason. we visited a jc. the people there kept on staring at us. so weird. and freaky. ya. so not fun la. and went mountain climbing. the view was really really nice. the mountains around us were so beautiful. ya. after lunch we painted a bass coat for the walls. and ya. most of us got super yellow. and at night we had english lessons again. ya. more people came. ya. we all felt so happy. cos ya. most of them don't have a membership at this centre. but they came and really enjoyed the lesson. and yes. brought friends along.

wedensday. we painted the whole day away. ya. half way ziteng went with aunty li diang to the airport to fetch uncle kai eng, aunty shirley, hui li and amanda. ya. when the second group arrived. we were almost done. we were cleaning up and doing the final touching up. and at night we had our last english lessons. ya. it was so sad. cos all of us really enjoyed spending time with the china teens. ya. they were really nice people.

thursday. we went to the village. ya. we visited the school there. we sat though a lesson. their lessons there are so different then those in singapore. they were learning about memory in the class i sat in. that's like something you won't learn in singapore la. so it was a different experience. then after that. we went to the church in the village. ya. they served us so much food. actually everyday we get a lot of food. ya. then we taught the christian children there english. ya. and i must say. they all learn really fast. all the children there learn fast. including those teens from the centre. ya.

friday. we went shopping the whole day. ya. and the millionaires sat next to pickpockets. good thing aunty eunice was there. she told us to move away. then we discovered that pickpockets were actually all around us. ya.

saturday. we practised for the mime and all. ya. for the whole morning. then we shopped the whole afternoon away. at night we went to the church. we sang my redeemer lives.and the song which goes 'al la la la la la le lu ia' ya. then we were suppose to do the mime. but then my dad forgot to bring the cd. so he rushed back with eunice. ya. i was so scared something would happen to him. ya. then hui li took over and gave her testimony first. and aunty mui ing shared.. and by then my father made it back. ya. so ya. God was good. he made things possible. the mime went well. from what i heard. ziteng forgot to build the mountains and the valleys. he was 'god' and the rest of us were like facing back. so ya. i shall not go into it anymore. cos of somethings people shouldn't know. but overall. it went really really well

sunday. our last day. we spent the morning in a church. touring the church actually. ya. the young kids there were so so cute. and ya. they really sang. something i somehow cannot find intermediate department doing. then we shopped for a while more before going to eat in a restaurant. ya. then we went back to the centre. did our final packing. did a little bit more shopping. then we grabbed our bags. with the help of some of the really nice teens. like the guys who like kim and jerry. ya. we placed all the bags in the bus and went to the airport. the ride was bad. but nevertheless. i made it back. haha

ok. that's like what happened each day. ya. i learned more about the troop. which was something i couldn't do in singapore. ya. i also learned how blessed. i found out that many were too poor that their grandparents and parents had to beg to see them through their education. i was so blessed to be able to have a change of clothes everyday while many had to wear the same clothes for a few days. i was so blessed to stay in singapore which has a really good flushing system. (for those who went there you know what i mean). i felt so touched when i saw people helping each another. i felt so touch when i heard of the help aunty li diang provided for the three girls whom she is housing. the story behind each was really good. i understood that God really has a plan for all of us. like how he directed aunty li diang to luoyuan by the means of friends. how He directed the FMC teens to luoyuan when it was initially suppose to be cambodia. how because of that. we managed to have an impact on some teens. that were non christian. and ya. they wanted to follow us to church. ya. actually they came because of kim. but out of them all. one of them asked about God. so ya. hopefully he will find his salvation.

so like what aunty shirley said. we should all pray for those in china. so that one day. somehow or rather. they will want to know more about christ. and yes. find their salvation. ya..

this is what i've learnt about everyone.

the sec 3s-- really sociable. ya. very fun to talk to. and they are really enthu.

rachel-- not as quiet as she looks. she actually talked non stop. haha. the millionaires were suaning her like crazy

jess and sarah and pho-- about the same as they were in singapore

the millionaires-- haha. we rock!!

ya. i'll continue about this another time. now i'm going to socialise with people.