Tuesday
First full day in Singapore. Breakfast in hotel restaurant followed by bus trip out to the One World (International-very exclusive private) School of South East Asia for a tour and press conference. Once again had a lot of wait time but had a good talk with one of the support staff about his religious background and learned a bit from him about a branch of Christianity that I am not too familiar with. Enjoyed the chat.
Able to pass off another "verse of the day" to the player I mentioned a couple of days ago--for guidance in his daily reading. About half way through the press conference had a good chat with Ja and we decided we needed to spend some time "in the Word" tonight...about two hours later he was pretty sick (flu?) and eventually ended up skipping training to try to sleep it off.
Meanwhile the team was back to hotel to change and get ready for training and then taxi's to the Australian International School for training (4-6:30 pm) on a cement floor (not good for the guys and there in no "spring" and muscles get sore quite quickly--not to mention a pretty intense heat even though the gym was air-conditioned.
During the training has a great chance to chat with one of the other support staff about some of his experiences in travel with basketball and most enjoyed talks about his visits to cathedrals in Europe. Clean up gym and taxi's back to the hotel.
Late team dinner at the hotel and Jason came down after a long nap saying he was feeling a little better but he still looked pretty shot. Said he was still up for a Bible study so we waited until the others had left for shopping and spent about an hour and half in the room talking about an iarea of personal development that he is interested in. This was a rich time for both of us concluding in prayer together. Long day but felt pretty good about it. Several "mini-conversations" with about half the team. Step by step!
Hit the rack about 11:30 pm.
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