After getting back from Yangshou on Wednesday we only had two short days of teaching until we left for Beijing. Those were my first two days of teaching my new kids. The older kids are able to talk a lot more than the younger kids so my lessons are more fun, but I still think the babies I used to teach are much cuter!
On Friday after school we left for our long journey to Beijing. We took a shuttle, bullet train and subway just to get to the train station. After arriving in the train station we discovered we had been mislead to the wrong part of the train station. By this time we only had 30 minutes until our train left and we had about a 25 minute subway ride to the other part of the train station. We sprinted to make our train and along the way we were all laughing loudly and ran over many people with our suitcases on accident. I think this is why Americans have such a bad stereotype. Unfortunately, we missed our train by 4 minutes!!! We were very bumbed to get a late start on our vacation. We then waited in a very long line to get new tickets. Because we were traveling on National week all the trains were completly booked until Sunday. It was our only option so we got STANDING tickets for a 21 hour train ride to Beijing. Afterwards we all ate at KFC and came up with a new game plan until Sunday. We decided we would stay at a hotel near the train station, but we did not want to waste money on buying multiple rooms for 12 girls. We ended up getting only two rooms with only two full sized beds in each room, so 6 girls were crammed in each room. There is apparently a law that only 3 three people can stay in one hotel room, so anytime a Chinese worker from the hotel came to our room we had to hide three girls in the bathroom. I doubt they noticed the three girls in the bathroom, but I'm sure they noticed the excess luggage that took up the whole room.
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