As grim as we thought our introduction
to Tai Po was, there is beauty around us. Although we only lived at
the hotel for one week, we quickly became accustomed to city life and
having the ability to take a lift {elevator} down to the street where
we could walk across to a grocery store. We enjoyed having that easy
and immediate access to the outside world. Now we're a good 10
minutes taxi ride into town, or a 15 minute minibus ride. There are
no grocery stores in sight around our village apartment, which
requires us to be intentional with the time we do spend in town.
Sitting in the park which is located in
the heart of the Tai Po wet market watching little old men without
any teeth playing Mahjong together. Occasionally one of the men will
get up and shuffle over to another park bench. They wander by our
family and give us the slow once over look that covers our head to
our toes.
I love the old wet market. There's
another shopping plaza that is newer and has a more western feel to
it, but wet markets remind me of my life in the Philippines. Seeing
the fruit on display and even the meat cut up and sectioned out in
each stall, reminds me of home. There is a beauty to it and a
familiarity that draws me in.
Wow!
ReplyDelete:) I'm thankful that part of our life is over.
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