Day 4

Wednesday, April 1, 2009

Today I went with my mom and some of the ladies in her branch to the fabric market. The vendors are lined up on the street with their fabrics on carts to sell. It's just a block in the middle of a street in Hong Kong. They have

 all sorts of fabric and it is so cheap! My mom and I got some fabric to make me a nice skirt and jacket suit and bought all the fabric for about 15 US dollars. 

It's crazy. Then we are going to go to a tailor and get it made for really cheap as well. The vendors don't speak very good English so you have to mime and point and do numbers on your fingers and they mime back and use their calculators to let you know how much you owe them.

 

The ladies in my mom's branch have a quilting club thing and they get together once a week at Sandy's house to work on quilts. So the ladies we were with were buying fabric for quilts and my mom was also looking for some fabric for quilts since she has been slaving away making quilts for each one of her children to bring back this summer when they return. 

Sandy showed my mom a quilt pattern and my mom decided that she was going to take that task on as well and make another quilt. She has made 5 so far and has about 5 to go. Crazy! 

After the market we went to get hot buns as they called them. They were steamed buns with different fillings in them. They look like a glob of dough but they are cooked all the way through. One of the ones we got was filled with bean curd which was not very tasty, but the other one was filled with custard and that one was pretty good. 

That night after dinner my dad and I watched No Reservations while I worked on homework. My dad commented on the fact that he was the only one watching the movie and I told him I was a good multitasker and could watch and work on homework at the same time and proved it by repeating back the last line in the movie. I got tired though and went to bed before it was over.