Today we woke up early again and decided to try to find the
swimming pool in our community. Alison, Melissa, Carmen and I went exploring
for a while and only found multiple groups of people doing tai chi outside.
After having no luck finding the pool we decided to do charades for some Chinese
guys to see if they could help us. Surprisingly they pointed us in the right
direction and we were able to find the pool. However, when we got to the pool
we found out we had to pay so we just went back to our apartments.
After our head teacher, Karina, woke up we walked around
town to find some breakfast. We ended up walking into this pastry store. I got
this Portuguese Tart that was super good! We walked around the town for a
little longer and looked around at some of the stores. Afterwards we ate lunch
at the Kiayan school that just down the street from our apartments.
After lunch we went to get smoothies… again. The ILP group
from the Kaiyan school joined us. The guy at the smoothie store speaks pretty
good English so we are able to have conversations with him. He enjoys our
company / business everyday! The girls in my apartment and I then went
exploring to find our head teacher, because we had lost her. In the process it
started pouring rain! We thought she might be at the apartments for the Kaiyan
school so we ran over there. Along the way we found two of the guys from the
Kaiyan school and started playing basketball with them in the rain. It’s fun
having two ILP groups live so close, because we are able to meet and hang out
with so many people.
We ate dinner at the Kaiyan school and then took the shuttle
down town to meet our coordinators. We
wanted them to show us a good store with Chinese dresses. They took us to
Walking Street, which is basically multiple streets with lots of awesome
stores. I ended buying a cute little Chinese
dress! I probably got one of the biggest sizes they had, but it actually fit
me. If I understood them right the red Chinese dresses are meant for the
Chinese weddings. We did some other shopping, but had to leave at 9:15 pm
because the shuttles stop running at 10 pm.
On our way home we walked past a store called “Pizza and
Coffee”. When you are in China and have Chinese food 3 times a day and you come
across an American restaurant, you better take advantage of it! A few of us girls stopped to get some pizza
and fries. We dominated that food!
Some of the girls in my group - (left to right) Melissa, Brittney, Carmen, Karina, Anna, Alison
The fruit market - this is where we meet Carlos
They randomly pile trash in the steets
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