Okay so I know this is late.
Last week not a lot happened till the weekend. Monday to Thursday we
pretty much just hang out at the school or taught. The kids had an day
day school week because if the holiday this week. On Friday we have our
short teaching day. Friday we went out. Saturday I went out with some of
the other foreign teachers to a sports store called decathlon and we
went to dinner. After dinner Erica met us and we went to one if the
Catholic churches to go to the Easter processional and night mass. It
was pretty cool but all in Chinese. We got up early the next morning to
all go to Easter mass. It was good. All about Christ saving us by
resurrection and how we don't need to fear death etc. We went to an
Irish pub after for lunch. They had hamburgers, pizza, Irish foods like
bangers and mash, ice cream. It was so good! We had regular sacrament
meeting after that. It was really good! Easter is awesome! The church is
true!
Monday we had a Friday scheduling of class so we taught early. We did an Easter egg scavenger hunt. It was way fun!
We went to a shopping area that's super cheap by Tianyi. Afterwards we
went to our favorite cheap noodle place that's like 5 minutes from the
school. Its so so so very good! Tuesday we got up and left at 9 to go to
the train station. We took the train to Hangzhou. Hangzhou is so
beautiful! Its the home of the west lake. Its breath taking. Its both
industrial and it has beautiful nature. We went to Indian food for
dinner. It was good. The hostel was way nice! Wednesday we went to this
gorgeous park. It had grass and tulips and bridges and rivers and ponds.
So gorgeous! We went to a outdoor shopping center and because ours a
huge holiday there were more stands with things to buy. It was so
crowded and so fun! We had to be back at the hostel at 3:30 to check out
and go to the bus station. The bus took us to Huangshan. We got there
late and took some taxis to the hostel. It was not as nice as the one in
Hangzhou. Its a cheap hostel. Thursday morning we got up and pushed out
way onto a taxi bus to go to the actual yellow mountain. We had to take
another bus to the entrance. We decided to take a carriage lift up to
almost the top because of time. It was so awesome being in the clouds
and fog. We hike around got a couple of hours, going to different peaks.
They don't have ramps, holds, or trails; its all stairs. Don't worry I
took tons of pictures on my camera. We hiked down instead of taking the
lift and wow is that a workout! I really don't like stairs now. But we
did get to see some monkeys and like always everyone wants our picture
and to be in pictures with us. I'm actually starting to like it. Ha ha
We got home from the mountain and had dinner. My feet killed! We all
took turns taking a shower and went to bed. Friday we slept in and got
fruit for breakfast. The of the girls decided to go back to Ningbo
instead of going to Hangzhou. We went to a place called ancient street.
Its a super old street that's been there since the qing dynasty (960ad).
Tons of food and shopping. 6 of us met up with 5 guys that Erica met
the day before and we went to dinner and to ktv (private room karaoke).
Ktv is awesome, I had done it earlier with or group and it was way fun!
We went back to our hostel. Sorry I forgot to take pictures. We got up
in the morning and went to the bus station to go to Hangzhou. When we
got to Hangzhou it was windy. We took taxis across town to the railway
station and got tickets to go home to Ningbo. They only had tickets for 8
and so we split into groups. Some went to the lake, we went to the huge
street market, and some went to the museum. I had McDonalds again. The
meat and fries are not as greasy as back home. The fries don't have salt
either. We met back at the train station at 7. We got onto the train
and headed home.
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