Cheers,

    Yesterday Randal and I got on the 5:45 AM first underground train leaving Tower Hill Station to start our journey to Heathrow Airport to collect our friend Singkey who would arrive at 7:20 AM.  We arrived at 7:10 AM and saw that Singkey’s plane had landed early, 7:02 AM.  But then it took about an hour from the plane landing to actually have Singkey come to the Arrival Hall and then it was about an hour back to DoraMac.  By the time we arrived back on DoraMac Singkey was exhausted and Randal and I were pretty tired too.    So Saturday was intended as a “rest day,” though that’s not quite what happened.  Something better happened!

    Today we started out for Petticoat Lane Sunday Market, stumbled onto a tour of the Sandys Row Synagogue and then a Toynebee Hall tour as it was “Open House Weekend” in London.  I won’t explain anything about any of those places…an overly photo laden email will come eventually.  As well as one about my walk through Wapping on the way to the Canary Wharf idea Store (Library.)  Tomorrow morning we’ll join up with Sue and Ed and go to the Tea Pot for a “cream tea.”  And then some kind of hike to walk it off! 

     This email is about a very amazing and happy coincidence. 

Ru

     Our friend Singkey arrived from China early Saturday morning.  After some rest after her long travels, Saturday afternoon she, Randal and I walked across the river to Tesco to get some groceries.  On the way back to DoraMac guess what happened while we were crossing Tower Bridge?   We met one of Singkey’s teachers from Zhanjiang Normal  University, Zhanjiang, China!    She is here in England at a university in London as a guest teacher.  We had a photo session on the bridge and later that evening we all had dinner on DoraMac.  Happily for Randal and me, Jessica is quite fluent in English; Wenze not so much.  But he definitely learned to say, “I’m full.” 

   Wenze will be returning to China, but Jessica will remain until April.  We’re hoping during the Christmas term break that we can all get together again.    Singkey will be at the University in Birmingham but will return to stay over the holidays.