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Published: August 15th 2007
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WOOHOO,
So, I packed up and made my way to Hainan with a pack of students on a trip that was paid for by my university in Beijing. We went to Hainan for 5 days and four nights. The trip sounded awesome. A paid for vacation away from Beijing's bitterly cold, windy, dirty winter. We got onto a plane and made the trek to China's island paradise. When we got off the plane and wandered through the airport one of the first thing's that I noticed was that there were palm trees. There were palm trees. It was also warm enough not to wear thermal underwear. Wearing thermals had been a necessity in Beijing during the previous weeks. We all crowded into a bus and headed to the hotel. I was put in a room with a cool girl from Cape Verde. The students that participated in the program were from all over the world. Madagascar, Russia, Cameroon, Cuba, Laos, Thailand, Moldova, Uzbekistan and Kazakhstan.
We woke up crazy early in the morning and piled onto the bus to go see the sites. We saw a beach with muddy colored sand, stopped to get awful Chinese food, and went
Fun in the sand
This is my Chinese name written in the sand. to see a minority village. The village was really weird and boring. The minorities didn't live there. They just showed up there and tried to get yokels to take photos with them and chickens and pigs. There were old ladies sitting around without shoes weaving fabric. There weren't any kitchens really or places to cook and go to the bathroom. This wasn't a place where people lived just a crappy makeshift museum with performers. It was like going to Williamsburg in Virginia to watch people whack at wood and drive around in horses and biggies and eating crappy, tasteless colonial food. Sorry about that tangent. It was really unathentic.
That night a bunch of the guys on the trip got really drunk and rang my doorbell at 3:00AM. I thought something crazy had happened at that someone was hurt or something so I opened my door. They rushed in with pillows and started whacking me and my roommate with them. They literally beat my roommate awake. They all ran out chasing my roommate so I locked the door. I watched them try and convince my roommate to get me to open the door so that they could beat me
Beach Bunnies
Me and friend chilling on the beach in Sanya some more. They were too drunk to realize at first that I could see them through the keyhole. When they realized I could see them they motioned to each other to be quiet and for my roommate to get me to open the door and backed out of sight with their pillows raised. I couldn't help laughing and giggling. It was like a scene out of a bugs bunny cartoon. I was all like no way am I opening the door Elmer. LOL!
So, when I didn't open the door that time they realized I was no fun and walked across the front of my door with their pillows lowered. I opened the door and grabbed my roommate inside of the room and got the lock over the door right before they started pushing on it.
The next day they had a big laugh about terrorizing me and my roommate and I learned that they couldn't be trusted.
We were late getting out of the hotel the following morning. We had our crappy breakfast of sweet bread rolls and not so sweet bread rolls, cold noodles, an egg and tea. Our breakfast was like that every single morning. CRAPPY CRAPPY CRAPPY.
Later on I figured out why we got out of the hotel so late. Apparently one of the guys that stormed into my room with a pillow had more to drink and took a dip into the pool after visiting my room. He went back to his room sometime after 3AM and woke up the teacher that was rooming with him because he had forgotten his key.
The teacher was pissed. The following morning he woke up the Russian guy so that he could go down and get breakfast and get onto the bus. The Russian guy sat up in the bed said "I'm coming" and went right back to sleep. The teacher tried to wake him up again. Then another teacher tried to wake him up. Eventually someone from the hotel staff came to yell at him also. So, he dragged himself out of the bed and downstairs onto the bus. He and a couple of other guys sat on the back of the bus just wreaking of sweat and alcohol. That was a tough bus ride. We switched hotels that night after going to the beach for an hour and seeing a bunch of boring museums and listening to a speech about tea and some crappy medicine fish oil or something that we had absolutely no interest in buying. We asked the tour guide if we would get to go to the beach again. They said sure. They were lying. The beach was nice it had whitish sand. It wasn't the Bahamas though. Freeport had a truly gorgeous beach. Sometime in the next couple of years I am going back to the Bahamas.
That night a few of us went out to go to the beach. We hopped into two cabs and went on our way. Unfortunately, the cab that I was in was being driven by a drunken idiot. I didn't know he was drunk at first because I was sitting in the back of the cab. So our drunken cabbie losses the other cab driver. We tried to call the people that were with us, but they had no idea how to tell us where they were because they were on the beach and there weren't any Chinese people around who could give our cabbie directions. So, our idiot cab driver tries to drop us off in a really dark place no where near the beach. We tell him no way. We are not getting in a dark, strange place. We tell him to take us back where he picked us up. He was too drunk to have any idea where that was. So, he turns the cab around and instead of making a three point turn he makes a 7 point turn. He was driving a stick so the cab stalled once or twice during this process. The guy from Yemen who is sitting in the front seat dying laughing. He finds this whole thing incredibly funny.
So the guy gets the cab turned around and he starts driving down the road at 30km an hour. 30kmh is a little under 19 mph. Cars behind us are honking and passing us.
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Belinda Walker
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Hola Chica!!!
wow, it sounds like you are having a wonderful yet interesting time in China. :) I'm glad to hear you are doing so well. Talk to you later. Belinda ps. my e-mail add.is Belindalmw@intercoastsales.com