A day in the church

On the 14th of December, I went to the Mochou Church(a christian church) with my German friend Miguel. I attended in the early afternoon. I chose Christianity because among all the religions, most of the time I heard about Christianity and when I was younger, my parents told me the story about Jesus and this relates to Christianity.

I did not like this experience at all honestly. Sorry. Because I nearly fell asleep during that as it was so boring and I could not understand a word! Also because the atmosphere was so serious and I do not like people to be so serious. I hate that I had to pay attention to what the priest said even though I could not understand because when I saw Miguel, he was like all the time no talking, no laughing, there was even no expression on his face! I was shocked but I had to follow because he knew how to deal with this situation. Just show my respect. Actually it was strange and different for us Chinese. Sometimes, it created a feeling of fun, looking forward, I always saw a row of teenagers heads down in the exactly the same way, they were sleeping. "Church is never a residence hall! I never saw people sleeping in churches in my entire life!" Miguel finally became a bit more relaxed and said with a laughter.

Later on there was a performance on the religious stories and Miguel was correcting while they were telling the story! I could not believe it! As time went on, some students were leaving and the atmosphere became much better than before, at least Miguel and I started to whisper.

When it was about to finish, there was a priest speaking terrible Indian accent, both of us wanted to laugh but we stopped ourselves. Finally, we sang the song(sort of like a chant), then left without regreting.

Well, I probably did not learn much about the religion because all the time I could not understand properly. However, at least I knew that I should show my respect and pay attention though I did not know what was going on. Also, this shocked me, I knew that churches are all very serious places but I could never imagine that it could be so serious! Next time, I will be prepared.