Monday, September 1, 2008

Stuck in Gwuanzhou











So get this, we were stranded in a city. Apparently our train didn't leave until the next day in the afternoon so we were stuck in the city of Gwuanzhou (guan-joe). We were all clueless of what to do since we werent suppose to be there but then a guy from our school showed up to take us around, his name is Collin. Must i remind you that our bags were already being sent to Kunming so none of us had a change of clothes, It was our second day in the same clothes.. After and hour of walking and waiting we settled in to our first hostle. All three of us shared a room, the beds were as stiff as a board! The best was the bathroom simply because it was the sink, toilet ( squater) and shower all in one haha terrible! After getting some chinese money from the ATM we all decided we were hungry for a hamburger and what better then McDonalds.. We have never eaten so much Micky Dee's in our life haha. It was in this huge mall, once done eating us three went exploring. We found this cute little hair place and once the Chinese girls caught sight of us they beckoned us in, sat us down and got to work. They asked where we were from and we said, "America." they just smiled and giggled to each other. We felt so bad watching them stroke our hair and comb through it, like it was part of King Tritons robe, since our hair was so gross and unwashed. They did these cool twists and poofs and then stuck these hair jewels in expecting us to buy them.. nay.. they were like 20 american bucks for a little pin! But we took advantage by taking pictures and making them feel special. We took out the pins and offered them a tip but they are not allowed to be tipped. It's strange. But with our convincing words they finally took the tip we offered. They were so cute!! We left the mall to explore some more and found a park filled with people and dancing so of course we couldn't help but to jump right in! At first we just watched and tried to catch on but there was this lady with a whistle who dragged us in and tried to teach us. It was funny though cause it was like american rap music they were doing like line dancing and fan dancing to haha not more then minutes later of us 3 dancing did we have a huge group of chinese watching us, they would clap for us and wha who when we wha whoed and point and smile. Whenever we stopped dancing and leave the little circle we accidently formed they would follow us saying things like, "Your very good dancers," "What's your names," and such things like that, they would light up like the fourth of July. Then we would jump back in and our crowd would come back, we felt famous!! haha. We danced for proabably an hour. We ran back to the hostle to tell everyone about our great find and as soon as we walked in the door one girl said, "Wow, its really raining hard our there." How embarassing.. Nope, Its pure sweat! haha we were sweating so bad from the humid and dancing we looked like we rolled around in puddles! And to think, two more days in these clothes. We magically feel asleep on the wooden boxes claimed as our beds and woke up to journey back to the train station.



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