October 29th

The English Corner last night was wonderful. I chatted mainly with an attorney and his wife, a HR person, and their son. Simply an interesting conversation. A little later others joined in.

Today was Brogan’s day off, and he wanted to go to the Guangzhou zoo. First I had to exchange American dollars (a one-half hour process), and then we took bus, light rail, and subway (2+ hours to get to the zoo). Guangzhou is the third largest city in the world. This was my first light rail ride – a splendid experience, comparable to the bullet train in Japan except that it doesn’t travel quite as fast.

The zoo was much better than I expected. The animals were clean, and most had adequate room in their cages. This was a highlight for Brogan – he loves zoos. Hilda said it was her first time at a zoo. I enjoyed watching the two male pandas. It was a lot of walking, and my legs were talking by the time we left for home at 6:30.

I was going to go to school (grades 1 – 3) with Brogan tomorrow morning, but instead I will work on muy sermons. That might be time better spent.

All is well here! It’s been fun to do things with Brogan (and Hilda, our service coordinator).

English Corner at Xue Hua Church near Jiang Men, a satellite of the Jiang Men Church.

Brogan sits at the light rail station waiting, and playing a game on his phone

Brogan and Hilda wait with patience.

The new light rail trains travel between 90 and 120 miles per hour. More and more new lines are being put into service making travel in China safer, modern, and faster. A great blessing!

One of the two pandas at the Guangzhou Zoo. The animals at the zoo seemed healthy and energetic.

We call this little panda, the red panda (lesser panda). The zoo had 4 – 6 of these active little pandas.

People traffic at the railway transfer stations was “horrific.” There simply were just lots of people.
Reminiscent of Tokyo in the late 60.’s