Watermelons, Etc.

If you read my brother and sister-in-law's blog (joshanddanielle.blogspot.com), then you may have already read about the watermelon truck spill. If not; yesterday morning, on the way to international fellowship, we encountered a traffic jam. After a long time of waiting, we finally made it up to the front of the line and realized the trouble. In the left lane of the highway, laying on the pavement, was the back end of a truck which had completely broken off and fallen to the ground. Following the back end were hundreds of watermelons laying all over that far lane; some crushed, some not. It was hilarious. Traffic was backed up so far because of a watermelon spill. It was by far the most interesting cause of a traffic jam that I had ever seen. (If you want to see a picture, go to the blog afore mentioned.)

After International Fellowship, we went across the street to eat a delicious Chinese meal. When we put down our chopsticks, it was time for Josh and Danielle to go run some errands before going to the airport so Danielle could catch her flight to Beijing, where she will remain for a few days.

While they did all that, I caught a taxi and went to Chicago Coffee (a nice little western coffee shop) to wait for a few hours for Josh to return. Grace and Amy (two of my new friends) were there so I talked to them for a long time about going to Chapel Hill. I'm still in shock that I'm going to be attending UNC in less than 5 months...

Anyway, when Josh got to the coffee shop and we were all ready to head home, something very interesting happened. First of all, it has not rained in this province in 7 months!!!! Thats a very long time, especially for all of the farmers who haven't been able to plant. With that in mind, listen to what happened. As we were about to walk to the car, clouds came overhead, the wind started blowing, and it began to sprinkle. When we opened the door, the bottom fell out. It was crazy. Jarred, Shelley, and Grace all said that they heard people out in the streets cheering about the rain. It was great.

Well, it's about time to start my monday. Today is the only weekday that we don't have class, so today we are going to get haircuts, maybe take a bike ride, put up smoke detectors, play a little music, study some, and who knows what. It is going to be an interesting week to say the least...

Oh I just remembered, last Friday, a guy named Luke (American who's one of my best friends over here) asked me to help him lead the music at the International Youth Group so I played guitar with him. That was really cool coming in and actually participating the second week I'm there. Luke's a really cool guy and I'm looking forward to chilling with him for the next month and a half... Ok bye for now