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Published: March 21st 2010
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Do they eat their customers? Aright. We (J & P, on of our students, Sunny, and me) left at 7:30 in the morning. Our driver was fiddling around on his phone most of the way.. and when he was doing that, he was going like 5 miles an hour.. aka bicycles were passing us. It was driving me crazy. He finally put it down and started driving like a normal Chinese person drives, and then we stopped for a bathroom break. Turns out it was for him... we waited and waited. We made it to Xiangfan in over 2 hours.. it's supposed to take less than 2 hours when you take a taxi.
We got there and were dropped off in front of a bunch of shops and right down the street from McDonalds and KFC. We went to McD's for breakfast. As soon as we ordered it changed to lunch. I got pancakes and sausage. I told Sunny I wanted coke to drink instead of coffee. She managed to not get me coffee, but I got some nasty tea instead. When she was ordering for us she went behind the counter and pointed to the pictures on the menu.. I kept thinking, "I could
J and Optimus
At least I think that's Optimus. He was excited. have done that.".. I feel like ordering gets more confusing when you have students with you.. at least students who aren't the greatest at English/Chinese translation. It was good anyway.. except for the tea.
We started shopping. J found this toy store on the way into town, and he went back to check and see if it was open. We went to a lot of different places, mostly with clothes, and Sunny was just obsessed with making sure J was okay. She would follow him everywhere and just leave P and me to fend for ourselves.. which I thought was a little crazy.. considering he's a guy and could take care of himself regardless of the language barrier.
We had lunch at KFC.. I got the mexican wrap. While we were standing in line there was this kid behind me talking to his mom.. he may have been 3 or 4.. I don't know, I'm not good with guessing ages. Anyway, he all the sudden just put his hand on me. And just stood there with his arm on my back for the longest time. I guess he was steadying himself... but it was kind of crazy. I
Ham and Bacon
Notice, "Elaborate Bacon" told P to check it out, and she was like, "Weird! Why is he touching you?" He let go, and I wormed my way out of the madness called the line. We found a seat upstairs and ate. P and I ordered ice cream with hot fudge on the way out. Super good lunch!
We all went back to the toy store to see if it was open. It was, so we spent a bunch of time in there looking around. We went to another part of town and found this random alleyway with a bunch of shops. It had a DVD shop that we all liked, and some weird random places. P found her parents something. It was a cool place.
We headed to Wal Mart.. J and Sunny went to find an ATM, so P and I went and sat at McDonalds and waited. She got a milkshake, and I just got something to drink. Melody was supposed to meet us, and all the sudden there she was, standing outside of McDonalds calling Jamey on her phone to tell him where she was. I ran out there and brought her to McDonalds.
J & Sunny
returned, so we went shopping again. P decided she really wanted this Snoopy shirt, so we went and got that. Then we went in Wal Mart. J & P bought a ton of stuff. I bought some more bacon, some ham, cheese, fabric softener, pretty cute shoes (kinda like crocs, maybe), and some Frosted Flakes. Sunny and Melody bought some stuff too.
J and Sunny went back to the toy store and got one last Transformer, and I decided I wanted these shoes I had seen earlier. They were super awesome, but I couldn't decide if I wanted them or not.. and then I thought, I might as well. So P and I went to get them. We saw a little boy pooping on the sidewalk.. but this person picked it up when the kid was done.
Our driver called and said that he was in Xiangfan. Sunny told him where we were, so he was going to come and get us. We waited on the driver to pick us up.. we waited and waited. While we were waiting we had this lady who was trying to promote that milk stuff that I drink (you know, the stuff
Fabric Softener
I've turned into a fabric softener snob. with the fruit chunks in it) come over to us and give us samples. She came back with more samples and asked if she could have a photo taken with us. There was this festival thing going on, and when it was finished we became the main attraction.. people were circled around us watching as we took the picture. So after the picture was taken the circle didn't disband. It finally did after we didn't do anything exciting except just stand there. Then a man came up and asked us for a photo. He was older and his pants were unzipped. We took the picture and then he was asking Sunny for information so he could share the picture with us. It was crazy.
The driver finally got there. Turns out if you leave past a certain time there aren't any cars left, and you have to take what you can get. J was unaware of this and got real mad when a van showed up and it already had 3 people in it. We had 4 people, and there weren't enough seats for everyone. Sunny had to sit in the very back squeezed in. It was crazy. We
finally got it all settled and headed back to DJK around 6:30.
I got home, ate my leftover alfredo and went to bed around 10:30. I was super tired. It was a really long day. A good one, but long.
So that's all I've got. Hope you enjoyed.
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