Malone Service Learning - China

By Ezra Hello from Shanghai, Today's events have helped better develop our appreciation  for cross cultural experiences. The adventure began with a delectable breakfast buffet in our hotel that included but was not limited to, a plethora of colorful deep fired greens, hard boiled eggs, puff rolls and much more. We then gathered ourselves together for the days events. The director of Mifan Mama, Terry met up with us at our hotel and then traveled with us on the Metro to the Shining Star Home. Upon our arrival at the Shining Star we were greeted by some of the cutest children in all of South East Asia.  We had the honorable pleasure of hearing the history of  the Shining Stars journey over the last few years. Currently there are seven partially to fully blind children, ranging in ages from one to nine years old at Shining Star. We had the chance to play with some of the children and even eat lunch with them while at the home. After our meal we were able to...

From Cleveland The China Service-Learning Trip Team arrived in Shanghai safely and on time (5/8): We are going to visit the Shingstar tomorrow.  

Malone University China trip held its final fundraiser on April 26. The group will leave to China on May 7.    

Safely at our gate in Toronto, with exhaustion setting in...

At our gate at the Hong Kong International Airport!  See you all soon!

Yesterday was our last full day in Hong Kong, spent at a beach with Dave and Cindy AuFrance.  Afterwards we had a massive amount of pizza at their house, and then found our way back to High Rock on our own. Today will be a 36 hour day due to the 12 hour time zone change.  We plan to get dim sum on the way to the airport before our 14-15 hour flight to Toronto, then on to Cleveland.  This will be a LONG day!!! We are leaving with fond memories of Hong Kong and China, with new friends made and lessons learned about other cultures, our own culture, ourselves, and what God is doing in our lives and in the world.  Looking forward to seeing many of you soon! The 2012 Hong Kong Team

Greetings, O ye followers of the Malone team's progress through Hong Kong and China! T-minus two days until we board our Canadian Argo and set off on the 14 hour Odyssey back to the good 'ol U.S. of A! Today was quite a day, folks. We started out with a kind of sociological sampling of  a couple neighborhoods of Hong Kong. In one area, we observed a group of protesters roughly equivalent to the "Occupy Wall Street"/"99 Percent" movement in New York. These people were literally camped out (in tents) on the open bottom floor of a local bank which has apparently been engaged in some shady dealings with the citizens of Hong Kong (a.k.a. Hong Kongers). It was eye-opening to realize how global these financial troubles can be. We also had a bit more time to explore the local mosque and city park area. Apparently, goldfish around here are HUGE! So there's that... Around noon, we had the opportunity to lead worship at a local establishment of organized religion. ...