Daylight Savings, Visit to Independent Baptist Church, Hailstones

This morning I woke up at 8.20 am and went for breakfast at the dining hall. But when I arrived, the hall was still locked much to my bemusement. Usually 15 minutes before the official start, people would already be eating inside already. So I went behind to the kitchen thinking that there could be a way in. But it was locked too. Then I happened to see one of the kitchen staff and I asked him why they have not opened the dining hall yet. He told me that the time was only 7.20 am, breakfast would only be ready in an hour. I was shocked and asked him why? Only then did I realise that Daylight savings had occurred, which meant that with effect from 3 am 18 March, time would be pushed back by an hour, ie, what used to be 8.30 is now 7.30. And because of that I lost an hour's sleep. What a confusing concept but at least I experienced my first daylight savings ever.

Later in the morning, I visited the church Sheena is attending, a very distant 40 minute bus ride away (if you don't get off at the wrong stop). It was a small group of believers numbering maybe like 12 people. After service, we walked out of the church and opposite the road was a gypsy fair, the first we ever saw before. We're not sure if there were women sitting in tents with their hands over crystal balls and trying to predict the future, since we didn't venture to take a look. We reached a conclusion that the clouds in christchurch and singapore look different although we don't know why. Stopped off halfway to try and buy lunch at Northland Mall but there was no burger king which i wanted; only macs so I decided to get fried rice from captain ben's. On the way back, it started to rain hail stones; i was half expecting the windscreen or windows of the Orbiter to crack any moment. When I looked out of the window there were still small pieces of ice on the ground.

Within an hour of this heavy downpour, the sky was a clear blue. Such is the unpredictable and ever changing weather here in christchurch.