What I've been calling 'home'

Here are a few images of the curious campus known as "Sias International University" an hour outside Zhengzhou. It's where I've been for nearly two weeks, and where I'll leave from when I head to Beijing next Wednesday. It's also the site of Bring Me Hope's primary camp location, where there is one day of camp left before the 2008 season is officially over. I'll have more later on what I'm doing for the last week of my trip, but for now, here's where I've been staying.

This place is huge, and it has a lot of huge buildings. I don't know how else to explain it. There is also a ton of construction going on right now, apparently because the place isn't huge enough already. There's a lot of scaffolding that looks something like this:

And here is my home away from Starbucks. It's a restaurant directly below the fourth-story room where I'm staying with David Bolt and a bunch of other guys. It serves decent coffee, although ordering the correct type is not as easy as you'd think (apparently even the point-and-nod method does not work out here...).

Lastly, I'll leave you with a few photos from camp. This is the same water slide as last year, in case any of my long-term readers were wondering...