Mission 2012 - Half Day Means Massage Time

Entry Twelve of my China blog:

Day Twelve…today is our half day at the center. I slept in this morning so I only had 10 minutes to shower and get dressed…but I still made it to the morning prayer meeting in time. A quick breakfast afterwards and it was off to the center.

As we were only going to be at the center for half a day, we didnt plan too much today and went along with what the teacher had in store. As normal it started with singing, and I spent this time with WenKou on my knee and then the rest of the session with Wei Hao, simply tossing a ball as he had lost interest in the singing activity for the day.

Afterwards I spend some time with WenKou in the Therapy room, today we introduced a couple of new activities to him, with some success. He has the right idea with most activities, just needs some guidance at times. But you can definitely see he is making progress.

Afterwards I spent some time with SanYing helping her study English, she is just so intelligent. Its really sad at times to think that she is stuck in that place. She is so beautiful and smart…she deserves much more.

We wrapped up at 12pm and headed back to the hotel. I quickly grabbed what I needed for the afternoon in town and we were off to eat some delicious spicy noodles and do some shopping. After shopping it was off to get a massage…and facial! While the massage was quite good…they decided to do 刮痧 (gua sha) which is also known as "coining" to us English speaking folk. Basically the results speak for itself….it was a touch painful. Apparently the more red marks you end up with, the more unhealthy you are. So according to that…im about to die!

The massage and facial were done and it was time for dinner. As it was a free afternoon, we choose a restaurant which is along one of the main roads close to our hotel. Looking like a classy place, we gave it a try and werent disappointed. Chicken, beef, prawns and even FROG…we ate so much and were totally satisfied as we left.

As we left, looking at our watches it was already after 9pm and we were remarking how fast the day got away from us! It was straight back to the hotel with us and to bed ready for the day ahead of us.