Tuesday June 1, 2010

As a result of visiting all of the major campuses in the area and coming so far with our research, Kelly allowed us to come along with the Louisiana team on a World Religion Tour Day. We travelled up to SFU to meet Kelly and the team and soon headed for Richmond. A Hindu temple, a Sikh temple, a Baptist Church, a Buddhist temple, a Jewish Community Centre, a Muslim Mosque, and a few other churches, all within a mile of each other, line one side of a street that Kelly calls God Road.
We started our tour at the Hindu temple and listened to a Hindi man as he told us about his beliefs. From there we stopped at a Sikh temple for a few minutes before heading back to the Buddhist temple for a real, full blown tour. We were taken all around the temple including to the private worship room of the live-in monks at the temple and had the statues of Buddha explained to us.
However, I’m certain that we didn’t retain the names of the Buddhas or for what they were worshipped. Nevertheless, it was very interesting to learn about all of the different religions and be able to experience their places of worship.
After the tour, the temple offered to feed us supper. I opted out, not sure if I could handle eating noodles after my experience on Sunday. Some foods were still affecting my stomach and I didn’t want to risk it. Instead, I went with Laura, Liesl, Christina, Sarah, and the entire Louisiana team to the Richmond Mall and ate KFC at the food court.
We had a good time chatting with the LA team and getting to know them. I had been talking about buying ice cream for a week or so and finally had the chance to do so. I bought myself a small Double Fudge Cookie Dough blizzard from Dairy Queen after as dessert. It was delicious!
At least it was delicious until the ride home. While still on the Canada Line, only about 20 minutes after my meal, I began to feel sick once again. The ice cream didn’t settle well and I didn’t fare well either.
We didn’t have a time of debriefing that night so I rested and went to bed not long after we arrived back at PLBC.