I Leave Today!

I can’t believe it! After weeks and months of planning, I am finally going!!! My visa never actually came through, but apparently that is not uncommon for US citizens. Fortunately, it can be solved at the customs there, or I have been told…

These past couple days have been great! I went to a Prayer Conference at my Grandmother’s church.

I got introduced to a lot of people here and had a great time! It was interesting though, when some people heard that I was from the US they would say in reference to the Church, “Oh, the US, it definitely needs a change… maybe you can experience God here and bring it back to the US.”

Anyways…during the conference we would break for lunch and walk by these apartments:

As we walked by, my Grandmother told me that these were older apartments because they were on the ground level. Later on, people decided to use the ground floor for more communal space; so many apartments now are not on the first story.

So, in talking about Christianity, one can not deny that Singapore is very multi-cultural/multi-religion country. Usually I tell my friends it is the “melting-pot of Asia.” In my experience, because it is so mixed, diversity is viewed differently than in the US. It is more of normalcy, while, from what I have seen, in the US people, either get upset, feel awkward, or think its really cool. In the US, I have been made fun of and laughed at because of my Asian physical characteristics. However, in Singapore, I am called “Ang Moh” or “white person,” but I see it as being stated more as a fact.

See you later!

Happy adventuring,

Gabrianne