Half Way!

HEY GUY!! okay thats half way as in half way through my 21 day quarantine haha not my whole mission... even though it kind of feels like it ater my 9 week mtc and this 3 week quarantine haha

 

 

No but its kind of going by super fast!! My companions and I have been staying busy studying, and studying, and studying haha everyday we have personal study, companion study, language review study, new language study, preach my gospel study, and role play hour my fav!!! jk i despise role playing haha its so uncomfy anyways but OMG so were aloud to watch some apporoved chinese tv haha so we've started this show and ITS SO GOOD its a C Drama (chinese drama) and wow yeah so full of drama haha its n madarin which I'm starting to understand more and more of which idk if thats good or bad haha but it has english subtitles so we can really know whats going on! But we watch is every break and during our meal times... we are very invested haha

 

 

The food here hasnt been the best haha I have thrown up a couple times which is so lame but I'm doing better now! We have to take our temperatures every morning and night with a thermometer that the airport gave us and mine shot up quickly! My companions and I joke that I'm milk deprived because I always talk about how much I miss milk! I used to have at least two cups of it everyday before i left and they dont really drink milk here! They drink warm water here which I thought would be gross but its actually kind of good haha idk if I think that because its actually good or becasue its the only thing I can drink lol our rooms have this water heater thing that boils your water in seconds, I think its so cool... Sister Kho said that her family would always do it at home and that it helps with stomach pains! 

 

 

At the beggining of quarantine, I basically was surviving off of preztels, the fruit that comes with our breakfast everymorning, and the gummy worms i brought with my from home haha but we've had a whole bunch of people bringing us food and we've had to tell people to stop bringing us food because we've run out of space to put things! But a few days ago a member here brought us MCDONALDS!!!!! so good I just cant stop talking about it haha its so funny, everytime our mission presidents wife asks us what we would like her to bring, we say mcdonalds and she laughs, and were like, no seriously please please bring us mcdonalds but she still hasnt hahaha anyways and then we also each got cute bags full of goodies from the senior couples in our mission which is so nice! They also gave us  a booklet of advice on how to cope with being stuck in a room all day and how we can spice it up from time to time hahah 

 

 

whenever we hear our doorbell ring when its not meal time, we get so excited because we know it must be a delivery, but one time it rang at like 2pm and we open the door and I bring the box inside and we got three cans of beer with a note rom the hotel that said something about getting through tough times hhaha anyways we had a good laugh about that 

 

 

We've been able to teach lots of english lessons in here over zoom! One time in an intermediate class, we were teaching the word "lend" and we were like does someone want to help us use this in a sentence? and this one school girl that was maybe 22 or 23 raised her hand and said "can you lend me your boyfriend because Im visiting my Mom tomorrow and I tell her I have a boyfriend" hahhaaha everybody was dying haha such an advance sentence

 

 

We got covid tested a couple days ago and were getting tested again tomorrow! These two women just came up to our door in all their gear you know, and asked us to see our passports, then swabbed each nostril and each side of my thoat  ( I gag everytime... I just cant) and then leave haha we dont even get our results haha our mission president has told us to talk with our families about getting the vaccine here! They have the pfizer one but Ive aleady gotten the first shot so we dont know if I would just start over with the first one again? anyways but two days after we got here, they changed the rule that the vaccine is mandatory to come to hong kong! So now everyone getting here after us is already going to have it, so they only have to quarantine for two weeks! Its fine haha the extra preparation in here has been nice but we are dying to get out of here!!!!

 

 

I have picked up a ton more of the language since being here! Its seriously so helpful to have companions to help and learn with you!!! Role playing is serioulsy my least favorite thing ever probably but we try and do it twice a day so I can get better and more comfortable with it haha when I was in the mtc I would do it with my teachers a ton and it was weird when they invited people to class to talk to me, like its like I would just forget everything I knew about the language which was so bad!! haha I got so comfortable talking with just my teachers that I was worried I wasnt going to be able to talk in cantonese with anybody else! But being here I've gotten more and more comfortable talking with my compnions, and other members that call us to practice! I just want to be able to communicate with everybody once I'm out of here so I can be friends with and teach them!! 

 

 

Thank you all so much for your emails! I will try and respond to some more of them today and throughout the week while im in quarantine!! 

Love and miss you guys! Stay safe :)

 

 

-Gáan Jíhmuih