Birds and more in China Town

Today I had to do some laundry. Since most of my clothes are rather delicate, I build some kind of clothes line with a rope in my hostel room. There were also a few clothes I could dry in the dryer, which unfortunately took more time than I had expected. In the end, I had to hurry to make it to the SWAP office in time for the orientation event at 11 AM. The orientation itself was - just as I had already expected - not that helpful as I already knew most of the information that was illustrated.
Afterwards I took a detour to the Gastown Steam Clock. I had been told that the clock would play some melody at every full hour, so I hurried to make it there by 12 PM. Unfortunately, the time on the clock was wrong (according to the clock, it was around 8:30). Thus I missed the melody. As I didn't want to wait for half an hour, I went to the bank to put some money in my canadian bank account before returning to the hostel.

In the afternoon, I decided to check out the famous Dr-Sun Yat-Sen Park in China Town. It was a long walk there but also definitely worth it. The park itself was rather small, but there were some Chinese buildings and bridges as well as a few exotic flowers. The center of it all was a pond where you could see several birds, koi carps, and turtles. At first I thought that the turtles weren't real, since the first one I saw just didn't move. However a few minutes later I discovered a second turtle which stretched its leg towards the sun. I stayed at the pond for a while to eat my snack - a breakfast bagel. Actually, I shared some of it with one of the birds there.

On the way back to the hostel I made a short stop at a church where I witnessed a short mass. However, I only stayed for a few minutes since I wasn't entirely sure if vistors were allowed. Furthermore, the preacher had vanished after the first short prayer and I couldn't tell whether and most of all when she'd be back. All things considered, I just felt really out of place there.
Back at the hostel, my new German roommate Julia, who is currently on trip to see the whole world, and me decided to cook something together. After buying some sausages, which for some reason only costed 1 CAD instead of 3 CAD as the price tag had suggested, we both ended up cooking our own meals, since I felt like eating Julia's potatoes and she rather wanted to eat my noodles.