Every time I get in a taxi here in China, i wonder what type of experience I will have. Just last week i was going to the grocery store and I needed to go quickly so I asked my taxi driver if he could go realy fast. Wow was that the wrong thing to say.. My driver went crazy, he started squeezing in spacese which looked impossible. I had never been so close to other cars then at that time. He also decided it was appropriate to go against the traffic to simply get around a car that was not going as fast as he would like. haha, I guess that is what I get for asking him to go fast. At one point I think he even touched another car but it didn't matter he just kept going. ha CRAZY..
So why do I tell you about my taxi experience? Well as we were skating tonight I realized that they skate like they drive. My roommate and I went to the new wall where they have a skating rink haha. People continually were going the wrong way, you get pushed, people come so close to you, you see in front of you an extremely small space and you think "SURELY no person can fit through there, and the next thing you know someone goes right in that space, maybe they even knock someone over.. haha Oh and the best part, people will be going so fast that they decide to make some sort of noise as if they are honking.. haha I love it!
Funniest thing from tonight. So just like in their driving, people sometimes run into you or whatnot. Tonight I totally felt like I was a hockey player, haha! Okay so I was skating and of course everyone is looking at me because I was one of two foreigners there (the other one being my roommate). Anyways this guy totally ran into me but I didn't budge I just kept going however he bounce of me so hard and ran into the wall as if I had just slammed him into it. It was quite funny, I couldn't stop laughing.
Well this was the first weekend that I had kind of free, it was a great feeling just to relax and have fun! I have been extremely busy recently and I don't see that much of a slow down in the upcoming weeks. However, I am continually grateful for days like this where I can see Gods handiwork in his unique creations. How great is our God? I pray that I will continue to see his work around and in my life, also I challenge you to look at things as God would... don't just look at the negative side but see what God does and be grateful for his handiwork. God is working and is teaching me daily to have patience to and to see things as he does.. This world, just like the skating in China is CRAZY, things go on and come so close to hitting us or making us fall. However, our God is bigger and better and while there is craziness he gives peace, Yeah our God truly IS great!
