China

I don't remember exactly how the order of my days in China went or what exactly happened on them, but I'm going to recall this past month as well as I can.





WuJiaoChang- After I got off the plane, they took me to eat pizza at this underground subway-esque thing at the intersection of 5 roads. Its humungously big and people everywhere in the moderately air conditioned underground. Lu Ai Yi left after dinner to do something and Li Shen led me around the area and checked out some malls including one that was like 12 stories with an ice skating rink in it. She asked me if I wanted to ice skate but she said she didn't know how so we refrained from doing that. Later, we checked out the outside where there was huge round things that the railroad went through up suspended in the air that lighted up and was different colors from each side. There was a bunch of kids putting on a rollerblading show and a bunch of old people singing and dancing around. Afterwards, we took the bus and went back to the house.






ShaoXing Trip- We left early in the morning at like 6 AM and got on the bus. It was me, Lu Ai Yi, her little sister, Li Shen, and Gao Yi. Chinese people really like to eat food. They brought so much food with them that it was ridiculous, asking me to eat some every step of the way. We went to some Guo Dai [ancient place] to look at this Poet's house who was like born in the 1880s. I took a lot of pictures and there was this street of souvenirs. I totally bought a fan and did the asian fan thing to cool myself off considering it was like.... fucking ridiculously hot outside. Later, we went to a pearl place and I bought a pearl necklace for 60 RMB for my mom [bargained from 75 RMB]. The hotel we stayed at was nice. Me, Li Shen, and Gao Yi shared a room and Lu Ai Yi and her younger sister shared a room. We played 80 Fen until like 11 and I tried to learn that uber confusing game in vain. I fell asleep wearing my glasses while Gao Yi and Li Shen watched TV.

The next morning, I woke up at like 6 AM and someone had nicely taken off my glasses and folded them next to me. We ate breakfast at like 7:00 and went on the bus to the waterfall place. When we got there, we hiked a bit and then there was this huge mountain lake that we had to take a boat across. Then we took a cart and then hiked up to the 5 tiers [the waterfalls], the most beautiful being the bottom most. I got to see the 5th, 4th, and 3rd tier before heading back down because the path above didn't have any rails. It was just me, Lu Ai Yi's lil sis, and Gao Yi who hiked up because Li Shen had hurt her foot like... 3 months prior due to a basketball incident or something. So Li Shen's mom and Li Shen stayed at the 1st waterfall and took a shitload of piccies. Afterwards, me and Gao Yi walked around and took some piccies and then we got back to the boat area, ate some ice cream stuff, and got back on the boat. After getting on the boat, we went to some residential place and ate. Then, we went to some Mei Nue's house place that was actually rather pretty and walked around in the burning hot sun. Then we went home via subway for the first time and saw an intense fight break out.






NanJing Lu- Li Shen, Lu Ai Yi, and her lil sis and me went to Ren Min Guan Chang, then switched over to line 2 to go to Nanjing Lu. We got some makeup that Lu Ai Yi ordered, then ate at NanJing Lu. It was this huge buffet that was uber cool. I tried out... rice wine, red wine, beer, everything. Rice wine was the best and I downed it. I ate so much. Then we walked down stairs and checked out some expensive american-esque clothing. Too expensive though. Afterwards, we went to Shin Tien Di, the foreigner hangout. But it was still bright outside and the number of people were very few. After some monotonous browsing, nothing happened and we went back to Ren Min Guan Chang to check out the underground subways shops. I found out that my feet are considered enormous in china, at a whopping 39-40. The max size that have at most shoe store places for women is a 39. We browsed for a lil while, but when it was dark out, we went up and looked at the massive amount of lights and people. After walking for a decent amount of time, we went into a small neighborhood and Li Shen called a cab and we waited for like 10 minutes until he came and sent us back home.






1st time visiting Ye Ye and Wai Gong-