Trip Observations:

Singapore:
1. It is Hot and close to the equator. Humid!
2. Very clean city
3. Lots of Shopping
4. More of a British presence than American. We saw few Americans while we were there.
5. Lots and Lots of containers and vessels all over the waterways there – which was obviously why we were there.
6. I saw no dogs and not a lot of kids in either of these cities. We were told people either have none or one child most.

Hong Kong:
1. All of the above but bigger feel
2. They do Not stop for pedestrians. They are very poor drivers, “what lanes!”
3. Also pushy in line, “what lines!”
4. Confirmed that Asians like to take pictures in their own country just as much or more than on vacation.

Indonesia:
1. Muslin country so many of the women are covered.
2. Lots of kids
3. And animals
4. Definitely a third world country
5. They all drive scooters. Very common to see a family of 4 or 5 including very young children all crammed on one scooter. No helmets. Some wear them but not all. They also carry large items on their scooters, drive them in the pouring rain, you name it!
6. They get extra long lunch breaks to pray, 90 minutes.

China:
1. At the red lights, they have timers to tell you how many more seconds until the light turns green. Same for green, how many minutes until the light turns red.
2. Families with more than one child gets greatly taxed to the point that they can’t afford to do it. So they either have abortions, give it up for adoption or those living outside of the city just do not register the kids. The child then will not have medical and can never go to school because they are not a registered citizen. It’s pretty sad.
3. Lots of development still to support the world economy
4. Gov has lots of control over people, example, we were told they were not allowed to watch the World Cup games, it is all controlled by Gov.
5. Men there do not cut their fingernails in a timely manner.
6. Lots of people walk around with bare feet!