So, I'm still alive in China! Hahaha. I'm going to do a re-cap of the days I've been here.
Saturday, 7/31
I already talked about this day up until the dinner we went to. It was a nice Italian place in downtown Dongguan. There were other lao wai (white people) there, so we didn't stand out much.
Sunday, 8/1
Sunday was packed pretty darn full... at 9:00 we all took the school's bus into Dongguan. Starbucks was first, where Kath, sue, Brian, Zoey, Kaliah, plus my brother and I. The other adults got photos done for their medicals. I had a green tea frappuccino. Starbucks is the same everywhere xD After that, we drove about f minutes to a mall/shopping center place. Woah. It was super busy! Mom and dad got sim cards for their phones after withdrawing money from the ATM. Next, we went upstairs to the DVD store! We got Glee, You're Beautiful, Modern Family and loads of movies, all for around $30 US total. Definitely legal, right? xD Then the main part of the excursion... Wal-Mart. Lovely. We spent over and hour there, finding various essentials. Three carts, to be exact, of these so called "essentials". Since it was Sunday, it was majorlyyyy packed and as expected, heaps of staring. It was embarassing-- not the staring, but the amount of items we had! Following that lovely excursion, Mom, Zach and I wandered trying to find food. We used the toilet... my first experience with squat toilets! We ended up crossing the street for Pizza Hut. Crossing the street= taking a chance with your live! Very overwhelming! Ordered out at Pizza Hut... it was better than the US Pizza Hut, hahaha. Following this, we drove back home. And collapsed.
Monday, 8/2
We went into Guangzhou today for medicals and IKEA! The medicals took a few hours- mostly waiting and paperwork. Antony and Tish are sooooo adorable, it was fun watching them! After medicals, we drove over to IKEA, where we first went to Starbucks across the street. Following that, it was 1.5 hours in IKEA... we didn't buy too much, since the van was packed full anyways. We also went to the Corner Deli, which has Western brands, etc. I got Ramune and Korean pocky. On the way back, we stopped in Zengcheng for passport photos at a wedding photo shop! There was definitely more staring than Guangzhou and even Dongguan.
Tuesday, 8/3
It's Dad's birthday today! I believe we're going into Zengcheng to buy bikes and just explore a bit.
It's so strange... sometimes I feel like I'm in China and sometimes I don't! It's the most bizarre thing. I think that I'm almost over my jetlag, so that's good!
I'll be putting up some photos and videos fairly soon, I expect.
Emily
6 comments:
sounds like fun!
did you each have your own cart?
ramune + pocky = ♥
say happy birthday to your dad for me and try not to play frogger too much. ;P
Yeah, we pretty much had our own cart each o.o
Em, sounds like you're having a really good settling in time with your family. I'm glad. Did you find a bike today?
I'll post more on FB.
Can you post the link to your youtube channel? I lost it!
It's posted on the sidebar on the left!
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