Isaac Chun Hai Fung
Newsletter Year
2000 Issue 5
Finally,
it stops raining (1)
Rain. Rains. Raining. Rained.
It¡¦s
Cold. Cold? Cold. Cold!!! L
It¡¦s winter, a season when leave fall off the
tree and the sun sets early.
Winter England.
Cold,
dark, rainy and windy ¡V the four adjectives for an appropriate description of
what
* * * * *
Loughborough,
located between
* * * * *
A
rainy day.
¡§The next station
is Loughborough. The train is half an hour late. We apologise for any
inconvenience caused.¡¨
Half
an hour. It¡¦s lucky
that it is only half an hour. Since the privatisation of the British Rail
several years ago, train journey in
It was a
Here came Derek.
My primary school classmate who emigrated to
After settling in,
Derek brought me to the Christmas Dinner of the Christian Union of
It¡¦s disco after
dinner. Popular British student culture. I was
thinking what it would be like, if the Christian Fellowship of HKU or CUHK
organises disco-going after their Christmas dinner (if they have one). Derek
and I were tired and left early.
Next evening (i.e.
Friday), we went to the meeting of Loughborough Chinese Christian Fellowship,
which is predominantly Singaporean. I was glad to see some British Christians
were there as well. Here, I met again a British guy, who went to
After the meeting,
Derek brought me to a house-party of his friends, who recently moved into a new
house in the town. It was wonderful. What I denoted is the house. The house was
so colourfully decorated. Different rooms had different themes: green, red, sky
blue, etc. The lighting was well designed. Artistic. Full of imagination. I doubt who will decorate one¡¦s home
like that in
On Saturday, I
went to the town centre with Derek. There is a market square. Every Saturday,
there is a market with lots of stalls selling different commodities. I found
the things sold in Loughborough were cheaper than that in
Sunday is the time
for worship. I went to church with Derek. The church he attended is called
King¡¦s church, a free evangelical charismatic church. (Don¡¦t bother all these adjectives
I added.) They had bands in their worship, and the service was quite good.
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